Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life

✍ Scribed by Markoes, Anton

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book covers the possible story of emergence of life and its subsequent evolution, emphasizing the necessary evolutionary step negotiation of a common "language set" which kept all inhabitants in the biosphere together, ensuring a basic level of understanding among them. The book focuses on "protocols of communication" (both genetic and epigenetic) representing norms shared and understood across the whole biosphere, enabling a plethora of holobiotic relationships. Cooperative nature of organismal evolution and epigenetic processes as a major force in evolution are also covered. Topics discussed are illustrated in detail on selected casuistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 4
1: Transgressing the Norms......Page 12
Preconditions......Page 18
Metabolism First......Page 21
‘Replicators’—Code First......Page 30
3: Life from Nonlife: Establishing Rules and Codes......Page 37
Proteins......Page 38
‘Universal Cell’......Page 39
Pillars and Itinerary of the Biosphere......Page 41
Biospheric Games......Page 44
4: Towards a New Manifold: The Biosphere......Page 59
Dating Life’s Appearance......Page 60
Origins: Biosphere LUCA......Page 61
Reconstructing the Past, Making Sense of the Present......Page 68
Descent with Modification......Page 72
J.B. Lamarck......Page 75
After Lamarck: Organic Memory......Page 76
Experimental Embryology......Page 81
Units of Heredity......Page 82
Modern Synthesis......Page 84
The Age of DNA......Page 87
Evolutionary Developmental Biology......Page 90
The Rise of Epigenetics......Page 94
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis......Page 95
Philosophical Approaches......Page 101
Philosophical Turnoff on Causality......Page 103
Evolution as History......Page 105
On Digital......Page 107
Shaping DNA......Page 109
Proteins......Page 110
The Hairball......Page 114
Targeted Epimutations......Page 115
Combing the Shapes of Nucleic Acids......Page 119
Protein Modularity......Page 122
Unrooted in the Norm yet Faithful to It......Page 125
Quorum Sensing......Page 128
Signal Transduction......Page 130
Chance, Necessity, and Gratuity......Page 135
Processing and Responding......Page 138
Simplexity......Page 141
The Tradition of the New......Page 144
Multicellularity......Page 145
Phylotype Again......Page 152
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance......Page 156
Biased Mutations......Page 159
9: Evolution by Cooperation: Communication between Different Lineages of Life......Page 160
Protists......Page 164
Intracellular Symbiosis in Multicellular Organisms......Page 166
Mycorrhiza......Page 168
Bacterial Consortia......Page 170
Mimetic Rings......Page 172
10: I, Holobiont......Page 175
Human Holobiont......Page 176
Colonization Determinants......Page 178
Functions of Microbiome......Page 181
Holobiont as a Unit of Selection......Page 185
Criticism......Page 188
11: Life as Interpretation......Page 191
The Nine-Word Game......Page 193
Species as Cultures......Page 195
References......Page 200
Index......Page 238