Publication subTitle :Evolution's Three Geneses
Author: Alexandre Meinesz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication year: 2010
E-ISBN: 9780226519333
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226519319
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780226519319
Subject: N Pandect of Natural Science
Keyword: Life -- Origin.
Language: ENG
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Description
How Life Began elucidates three origins, or geneses, of life—bacteria, nucleated cells, and multicellular organisms—and shows how evolution has sculpted life to its current biodiversity through four main events—mutation, recombination, natural selection, and geologic cataclysm. As an ecologist who specializes in algae, the first organisms to colonize Earth, Meinesz brings a refreshingly novel voice to the history of biodiversity and emphasizes here the role of unions in organizing life. For example, the ingestion of some bacteria by other bacteria led to mitochondria that characterize animal and plant cells, and the chloroplasts of plant cells.