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" The logic of chance : "
Eugene V. Koonin
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BL
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Record Number
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653479
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Main Entry
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Koonin, Eugene V
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Title & Author
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The logic of chance : : the nature and origin of biological evolution /\ Eugene V. Koonin
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Publication Statement
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :: Pearson Education,, c2012
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xii, 516 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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9780132542494 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0132542498 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
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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
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Subject
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Evolutionary genetics
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Genomes
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Evolution (Biology)
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Dewey Classification
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576.8
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LC Classification
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QH390.K66 2012
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