Symbiogenesis

A New Principle of Evolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-674-05045-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

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 were applied to his hypotheses, that scientists began to accept his view that symbiogenesis could be united with Darwin's concept of natural selection to explain the evolution of life. After decades of neglect, ridicule, and intellectual abuse, Kozo-Polyansky's ideas are now endorsed by virtually all biologists. Kozo-Polyansky's seminal work is presented here for the first time in an outstanding annotated translation, updated with commentaries, references, and modern micrographs of symbiotic phenomena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kozo-Polyansky, Boris Mikhaylovich

Margulis, Lynn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fet, Victor

Raven, Peter H.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Über Autor(innen)

Fet, Victor
Victor Fet is Professor of Biology at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

Margulis, Lynn
Lynn Margulis was Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

Kozo-Polyansky, Boris Mikhaylovich
Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890–1957) graduated from Moscow University and in 1918 joined a Soviet university in his native Voronezh where he became a vice-president as well as director of the local botanical garden.

Raven, Peter H.
Peter H. Raven is George Engelmann Professor Emeritus of Botany, Washington University in St. Louis, and President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.