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The Development of our Ecosystem
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By
R.J.P Williams, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
J.J.R Fra sto da Silva, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Description
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 precision of The Chemistry of Evolution plainly demonstrate
that life is totally interactive with the environment. This exciting theory makes this work an essential addition to the academic and
public library.
Audience
Students, academics and researchers in inorganic and organic chemistry, as well as those interested in uncovering the position of living organisms in a changing environment
Contents
Chapter 1. The Evolution of Earth-The Geochemical Partner of the Global Ecosystem (5 Billion Years of History).
Chapter 2. Basic Chemistry
of the Ecosystem.
Chapter 3. Energy, Order and Disorder, and Organised Systems.
Chapter 4. Outline of Biological Chemical Principles:
Components, Pathways and Controls.
Chapter 5. First Steps in Evolution of Prokaryotes: Anaerobic Chemotypes Four to Three Billion
Years Ago.
Chapter 6. The Evolution of Protoaerobic and Aerobic Prokaryote Chemotypes (Three to Two Billion Years Ago).
Chapter
7. Unicellular Eukaryotes Chemotypes (About One and a Half Billion Years Ago?).
Chapter 8. Multi-Cellular Eukaryote Chemotypes
(From
One Billion Years Ago).
Chapter 9. The Evolution of Chemotypes with Nerves and a Brain (0.5 Billion Years Ago to Today).
Chapter
10. Evolution due to Mankind: A Completely Novel Chemotype (Less than One Hundred Thousand Years Ago).
Chapter 11. Conclusion: The
Inevitable Factors in Evolution.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 494 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52115-6
ISBN-10: 0-444-52115-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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