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Symbiogenesis a new principle of evolution /

More than eighty years ago, before we knew much about the structure of cells, Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky brilliantly outlined the concept of symbiogenesis, the symbiotic origin of cells with nuclei. It was a half-century later, only when experimental approaches that Kozo-Polyansky lacked...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kozo-Poli͡anskiĭ, Boris Mikhaĭlovich, 1890-1957
Other Authors: Fet, Victor, Margulis, Lynn, 1938-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Importance of B. M. Kozo-Polyansky's Work for Modern Science
  • Introduction
  • Note to the Reader
  • Kozo- Polyansky's Life
  • Acknowledgments
  • Original Russian book title page
  • Preface
  • I Noncellular Organisms (Cytodes) and Bioblasts [Prokaryotes]
  • II The Cell and Its Organelles
  • III Multicellular Organisms
  • IV The Philosophy of Symbiogenesis
  • V History of Symbiogenesis Theory
  • References to Kozo-Polyansky's Text
  • Kozo- Polyansky's Taxa
  • Editors' Commentary
  • Commentary References
  • Modern Classification of Life
  • Glossary
  • Index