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In search of cell history : the evolution of life's building blocks / Franklin M. Harold.

By: Harold, Franklin M [author.].
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2014Description: xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226174143 (cloth : alkaline paper); 9780226174280 (paperback : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Cells -- Evolution -- Popular works | Cytology -- Popular works | Life (Biology) -- Popular worksGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Cells, genes, and evolution : (on the nature and workings of life) -- The tree of life : (universal phylogeny and its discontents) -- A world mostly made up of microbes : (bacteria, archaea, and eukarya) -- The deep roots of cellular life : (the common ancestry of living things) -- The perplexing chronicles of bioenergetics : (making a living, now and in the past) -- Life's devices : (on the evolution of prokaryotic cells and their parts) -- Emergence of the eukaryotes : (the second mystery in cell evolution) -- Symbionts into organelles : (mitochondria, plastids, and their kin) -- Reading the rocks : (what we can infer from geology) -- Ultimate riddle : (origin of cellular life) -- The crooked paths of cell evolution : (cell evolution is special) -- Summing up : journey without maps.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index.

Cells, genes, and evolution : (on the nature and workings of life) -- The tree of life : (universal phylogeny and its discontents) -- A world mostly made up of microbes : (bacteria, archaea, and eukarya) -- The deep roots of cellular life : (the common ancestry of living things) -- The perplexing chronicles of bioenergetics : (making a living, now and in the past) -- Life's devices : (on the evolution of prokaryotic cells and their parts) -- Emergence of the eukaryotes : (the second mystery in cell evolution) -- Symbionts into organelles : (mitochondria, plastids, and their kin) -- Reading the rocks : (what we can infer from geology) -- Ultimate riddle : (origin of cellular life) -- The crooked paths of cell evolution : (cell evolution is special) -- Summing up : journey without maps.

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