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1 online resource |
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Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands, 2195-1055 ; 2 |
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Social and ecological interactions in the Galapagos Islands ; 2.
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Contents |
Part I. Historical Perspectives. -- Darwin-Wallace Paradigm Shift / Ricardo Guerrero, Lynn Margulis -- From Copernicus to Darwin (1473-1882) / Carlos Montúfar -- Part II. A Microbial World. -- How Did Life Originate? / Antonio Lazcano -- A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus With Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions Within the Modern Ribosome / Ada Yonath -- Covering All the Bases: The Promise of Genome-Wide Sequence Data for Large Population Samples of Bacteria / Santiago Castillo-Ramírez, Edward J. Feil -- Role of Symbiosis in Evolution / Amparo Latorre, Andrés Moya -- Part III. Early Eukaryotes. The Evolutionary Origin of Animals and Fungi / Sandra Baldauf, Maria Romeralo, Martin Carr -- Written in Stone: The Fossil Record of Early Eukaryotes / Shuhai Xiao -- Endosymbiosis and the Origin of Eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan -- Part IV. A Planet of Animals and Plants. Epochal Change: Sweltering Climate at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary (55 Million Years Ago) / Bruce Scofield -- Insight into Speciation From Long-term Research on Darwin's Finches / Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant -- Ecological Selection and the Evolution of Body Size and Sexual Size Dimorphism in the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant / Carlos A. Valle |
Summary |
In 2001 Lynn Margulis visited the main campus of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito to give the commencement address and to travel to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Ecuadorian Amazonia. We felt privileged to be part of her entourage for this trip to the rainforest and to have the opportunity to listen her descriptions of hundreds of plants, fungi, insects, slime molds, and even symbiotic protists inhabiting the guts of primitive termites. During this trip Lynn expressed the need to promote a more comprehensive perspective on biological evolution, one that takes in account not only the classical and modern interpretations of Darwin's ideas but also the mechanisms of microbial evolution, especially symbiogenesis -the process that gave rise to eucaryotes more than two billion years ago and has continued to shape protists and multicellular organisms ever since. It was clear that evolutionary science was concentrated primarily on macroscopic biota while neglecting microbes almost entirely. Those conversations became the main motivation to bring some of the most important minds working in evolutionary science to the very place that inspired Charles Darwin, the Galapagos Islands. During the summers of 2005 and 2009 we gathered scientists specializing on plants, animals, bacteria and, protists to discuss the peculiarities of evolutionary mechanisms within each domain of life. This book contains some of the most important lectures presented at the first two World Summits on Evolution |
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Geography |
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Endangered ecosystems |
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Evolution (Biology) |
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Nature Conservation |
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Ecosystems |
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Evolutionary Biology |
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evolutie |
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evolution |
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natuurbescherming |
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ecosystemen |
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geografie |
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Geography (General) |
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Geografie |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Evolution (Biology) -- Galapagos Islands
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Galapagos Islands. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82058890
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Galapagos Islands
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Trueba, Gabriel
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Montúfar, Carlos
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ISBN |
9781461467328 |
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1461467322 |
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1461467314 |
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9781461467311 |
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1299856896 |
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9781299856899 |
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