In search of cell history
Subtitle: the evolution of life's building blocks
By: Franklin M. Harold
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780226174143; 9780226174280
Subjects: Popular works; Cells; Cytology; Evolution; Life (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cells, genes, and evolution : (on the nature and workings of life); title: The tree of life : (universal phylogeny and its discontents); title: A world mostly made up of microbes : (bacteria, archaea, and eukarya); title: The deep roots of cellular life : (the common ancestry of living things); title: The perplexing chronicles of bioenergetics : (making a living, now and in the past); title: Life's devices : (on the evolution of prokaryotic cells and their parts); title: Emergence of the eukaryotes : (the second mystery in cell evolution); title: Symbionts into organelles : (mitochondria, plastids, and their kin); title: Reading the rocks : (what we can infer from geology); title: Ultimate riddle : (origin of cellular life); title: The crooked paths of cell evolution : (cell evolution is special); title: Summing up : journey without maps.