The origins of life : from the birth of life to the origin of language /
In The Origins of Life, Maynard Smith and Szathmáry have completely rewritten their earlier book, The Major Transitions in Evolution, to bring their ideas to a wider audience of general readers. Here is a brilliant, original picture of how life evolved on earth, focusing primarily on six major trans...
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Oxford University Press,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Life and information
- The major transitions
- From chemistry to heredity
- From the RNA world to the modern world
- From heredity to simple cells
- The origin of eukaryotic cells
- The origin of sex
- Genetic conflict
- Living together
- The evolution of many-celled organisms
- Animal societies
- From animal societies to human societies
- The origin of language.
