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Cosmic Genetic Evolution, Volume 106 in the Advances in Genetics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Panspermia, Cometary Panspermia and Origin of Life, The Efficient Lamarckian Spread of Life in the Cosmos, The Sociology of Science and Generality of the DNA/RNA/Protein Paradigm.
Intro -- Cosmic Genetic Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword: Some things are simply given -- References -- Preface: The origin of life and astrobiology -- Disclaimer and acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction-Panspermia, 2020 -- References -- Chapter Two: Cometary panspermia and origin of life? -- 1. Historical context -- 2. Earliest life on Earth -- 3. Improbability of the origin of life -- 4. Interstellar dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and biological molecules -- 5. Comets and biomaterial -- 6. Some predictions of interstellar panspermia
2.4. Mammalian germ cells -- 2.4.1. Uptake of foreign DNA by spermatozoa and inherited effects in progeny -- 2.5. Graft-induced heritable changes in plants -- 2.5.1. Acquired inheritance -- 2.6. Adaptive evolution in bacteria and microorganisms -- 2.6.1. Adaptive hypermutation and SOS genetic responses -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter Four: The sociology of science and generality of the DNA/RNA/protein paradigm throughout the cosmos -- 1. The socio-economic control of science -- 2. Transition to modern times -- 3. Cosmic biology as a scientific theory
4. Predictions from 1979 and 1982 -- 5. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) -- 6. Viral sequences in genomes -- 7. Further predictions of interstellar panspermia -- 8. Concluding remarks -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter Five: The mutagenic source and power of our own evolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deaminases as an endogenous source of mutations -- 3. Deaminases in immunity -- 4. Deaminase target site access is directed by epigenetic markers -- 5. Linking deaminase activity to the formation and inheritance of instincts -- 6. Deaminases in disease
7. The role of deaminases in normal healthy cells -- 8. The role of big data -- 9. Consciously directing the evolution of HomoSapv2.0 -- References -- Chapter Six: Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases-Terrestrial or cosmic? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sudden simultaneous emergence of Candida auris infections in separate global regions -- 3. Sudden emergence new Coronavirus (COVID-19) causing respiratory infections in Wuhan, China and neighboring regions -- 3.1. Overview of the COVID-19 epidemic -- 3.2. Detailed analysis of COVID-19 epidemic
edited by Edward J. Steele, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe.