Biosphere Origin And Evolution

by Dobretsov, Nikolay; Kolchanov, Nikolay; Rozanov, Alexey; Zavarzin, Georgy

• ISBN13: 9780387686554
• ISBN10: 038768655X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-14
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Modern natural science shows that the infancy of life on Earth experienced prebiotic evolution and included the emergence of primitive self-reproducing biologic forms and their systems. The subsequent coevolution of inorganic environment and biologic systems resulted in global propagation of life over the Earth and its enormous diversification. Diverse living organisms colonized the land, water, and atmosphere, as well as upper layers of the lithosphere, thereby forming the biosphere.

Table of Contents

Problems of Biosphere Evolution and Origin of Life
On Important Stages of Geosphere and Biosphere Evolution	p. 3
Microbial Biosphere	p. 25
Prebiological Stages of Evolution and RNA World on the Earth and in the Space
Astrocatalysis Hypothesis for Origin of Life Problem	p. 45
Comets, Carbonaceous Meteorites, and the Origin of the Biosphere	p. 55
Hierarchical Scale-Free Representation of Biological Realm-Its Origin and Evolution	p. 69
The Prebiotic Phase of the Origin of Life as Seen by a Physical Chemist	p. 89
Prebiotic Carbohydrates and Their Derivates	p. 103
Theoretical and Computer Modeling of Evolution of Autocatalytic Systems in a Flow Reactor	p. 119
RNA World: First Steps Towards Functional Molecules	p. 131
Trans Hammerhead Ribozyme: Ligation vs. Cleavage	p. 143
Paradoxical Bistate Status of a Prebiotic Microsystem: Universal Predecessor of Life	p. 157
Archaen-Proterozoic Ecosystems: Their Interaction and Contemporary Analogous
The Ancient Anoxic Biosphere Was Not As We Know It	p. 169
Evolutionary Aspects of Geochemical Activity of Microbial Mats in Lakes and Hydrotherms of Baikal Rift Zone	p. 189
On the concept for the Organization of the Modern Biosphere in the Terrestrial Subsurface	p. 203
Biomineralization and Evolution. Coevolution of Mineral and Biological Worlds	p. 211
Visualization of the Silicon Biomineralization In Cyanobacteria, Sponges and Diatoms	p. 219
Transformational Changes in Argillaceous Minerals due to Cyanobacteria	p. 231
Coevolution of Geological and Biological Events in Phanerozoe
Ecological Revolution Through Ordovician Biosphere (495 to 435 Ma ages): Start of the Coherent Life Evolution	p. 245
Ecosystems and Molecular Genetic Factors of Organism Evolution
Evolution by Gene Duplications: from the Origin of the Genetic Code to the Human Genome	p. 257
Evolution of the Translation Termination System in Eukaryotes	p. 277
The Hedgehog Signaling Cascade System: Evolution and Functional Dynamics	p. 289
Approaches to the Resolution of Contradictions Between Phylogenetic Systems Based on Paleontological and Molecular Data	p. 303
Chromosomes and Speciation	p. 315
Biotic Turnover in Superorganism Systems: Several Principles of Establishment and Sustenance (Theoretical Analysis, Debatable Issues)	p. 327
Chromosomes and Continents	p. 349
Biosphere and Human Being
Genetic Landscape of the Central Asia and Volga-Ural Region	p. 373
Problems of Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment and Conditions of the Habitability of the Ancient Man by the Example of Northwestern Altai	p. 383
The Settling of the Ancient Man by the Example of North-Western Altai	p. 395
Evolutionary History of Wheats - the Main Cereal of Mankind	p. 407
Subject Index	p. 421
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