The logic of chance : the nature and origin of biological evolution /
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson Education,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Toward a postmodern synthesis of evolutionary biology
- The fundamentals of evolution : Darwin and modern synthesis
- From modern synthesis to evolutionary genomics : multiple processes and patterns of evolution
- Comparative genomics : evolving genomescapes
- Genomics, systems biology, and universals of evolution : genome evolution as a phenomenon of statistical physics
- The web genomics of the prokaryotic world : vertical and horizontal flows of genes, the mobilome, and the dynamic pangenomes
- The phylogenetic forest and the quest for the elusive Tree of Life in the age of genomics
- The origins of eukaryotes : endosymbiosis, the strange story of introns, and the ultimate importance of unique events in evolution
- The non-adaptive null hypothesis of genome evolution and origins of biological complexity
- The Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Wrightean modalities of evolution, robustness, evolvability, and the creative role of noise in evolution
- The virus world and its evolution
- The last universal common ancestor, the origin of cells, and the primordial gene pool
- Origin of life : the emergence of translation, replication, metabolism, and membranes
- the biological, geochemical, and cosmological perspectives
- The postmodern state of evolutionary biology
- Appendix A. Postmodernist philosophy, metanarratives, and the nature and goals of the scientific endeavor
- Appendix B. Evolution of the cosmos and life : eternal inflation, "many worlds in one," anthropic selection, and a rough estimate of the probability of the origin of life.