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Author Margulis, Lynn, 1938-2011.

Title Acquiring genomes : a theory of the origins of species / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.

Imprint New York, NY : Basic Books, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  576.86 M337a 2003    ---  Available
Edition 1st paperback ed.
Description xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index.
Note Originally published: 2002
Contents The evolutionary imperative -- Darwinism not Neodarwinism -- Darwin's dilemma -- Relative individuality -- The natural selector -- Principles of evolutionary novelty -- The microbe in evolution -- Species and cells -- History of the heritable -- Planetary legacy -- Gaian planet -- Eukaryosis in an anoxic world -- Consortia -- Seaworthy alliances -- Plant proclivities -- Chromosome dance : the fission theory -- Darwin revisited : species in the evolutionary dialogue.
Subject Species.
Symbiogenesis.
Evolution (Biology)
Added Author Sagan, Dorion, 1959-
ISBN 0465043925 (pbk.)
0465043917 (hardcover)

 
    
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