The evolutionary origins of life and death
"The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre Durand's ambitious manuscript answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. It turns out that cell death is a fascinating lens throu...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2594229.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to the scientific study of life and death
- The origin of life. Philosophical considerations and the origin of life ; The biotic world ; The theory of lifes origins ; Life at the very beginning I: the chemistry of the first biomolecules ; Life at the very beginning II: the emergence of complex RNA molecules ; The origin of life was an evolutionary transition in individuality ; A synthesis for the origin of life
- The origin of death Philosophical considerations and the origin of death ; Observations of death ; Mechanisms and measures of programmed cell death in the unicellular world ; True PCD: when PCD is an adaptation ; Ersatz PCD: the non-adaptive explanations for PCD ; Programmed cell death and the levels of selection ; A synthesis for the origin of programmed cell death
- Origins of life and death, and their coevolution. Group selection and the origins of life and death ; Life and death coevolution, and the emergence of complexity.