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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 481 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The evolution of earth-the geochemical partner of the global ecosystem (5 billion years of history) -- 2. Basic chemistry of the ecosystem -- 3. Energy, order and disorder, and organised systems -- 4. Outline of biological chemical principles : components, pathways and controls -- 5. First steps in evolution of prokaryotes : anaerobic chemotypes four to three billion years ago -- 6. The evolution of protoaerobic and aerobic prokaryote chemotypes (three to two billion years ago) -- 7. Unicellular eukaryotes chemotypes (about one and a half billion years ago?) -- 8. Multi-cellular eukaryote chemotypes (from one billion years ago) -- 9. The evolution of chemotypes with nerves and a brain (0.5 billion years ago to today) -- 10. Evolution due to mankind : a completely novel chemotype (less than one hundred thousand years ago) -- 11. Conclusion : the inevitable factors in evolution. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Conventionally, evolution has always been described in terms of species. The Chemistry of Evolution takes a novel, not to say revolutionary, approach and examines the evolution of chemicals and the use and degradation of energy, coupled to the environment, as the drive behind it. The authors address the major changes of life from bacteria to man in a systematic and unavoidable sequence, reclassifying organisms as chemotypes. Written by the authors of the bestseller The Biological Chemistry of the Elements - The Inorganic Chemistry of Life (Oxford University Press, 1991), the clarity and precis. |
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Evolution (Biology)
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Chemistry.
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Biotic communities.
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Chemical elements.
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Evolution |
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Ecosystem |
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Elements |
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Evolution, Chemical |
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Chemistry |
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Biological Evolution |
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Évolution (Biologie)
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Chimie.
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Écosystèmes.
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Éléments chimiques.
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chemistry.
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evolution.
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elements (chemical substances)
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Chemical elements
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Biotic communities
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Chemistry
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Evolution (Biology)
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Added Author |
Silva, J. J. R. Fraústo da.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, R.J.P. (Robert Joseph Paton). Chemistry of evolution. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006 (DLC) 2005055285 |
| ISBN |
0080460526 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080460529 (electronic bk.) |
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0080462111 |
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9780080462110 |
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0444521550 |
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9780444521552 |
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0444521151 |
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9780444521156 |
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0444521550 (alk. paper) |
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9780444521552 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780444521552 |
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AU@ 000051318867 |
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AU@ 000055739698 |
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CHBIS 005666531 |
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CHVBK 167084038 |
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DEBBG BV039828724 |
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DEBBG BV042314134 |
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DEBBG BV044084434 |
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DEBSZ 367769611 |
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DEBSZ 430356145 |
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GBVCP 58845205X |
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NZ1 12435168 |
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NZ1 14540648 |
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YDXCP 2493621 |
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