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245	1	0	_aEarly life on earth : Nobel symposium No.84/ _cedited by Stefan Bengtson
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c1994.
300			_ax, 630 p. _c27 cm.
505			_aTheme 1: Life's Gestation and Infancy Sherwood Chang The planetary setting of prebiotic evolution Donald R. Lowe Early environments: Constraints and opportunities for early evolution Kenneth M. Towe Earth's early atmosphere: Constraints and opportunities for early evolution Juan Oro Early chemical stages in the origin of life Antonio Lazcano The transition from non-living to living Antonio Lazcano The RNA world, its predecessors and descendants Herrick Baltscheffsky and Margareta Baltscheffsky Molecular origin and evolution of early biological energy conversion Benjamin Gedulin and Gustaf Airhenius Sources and geochemical evolution of RNA precursor molecules: The role of phosphate David W. Deamer, Elizabeth Harang Mahon, and Giovanni Bosco Self-assembly and function of primitive membrane structures. Giinter Wachtershauser Vitalysts and virulysts: A theory of self-expanding reproduction Leo W. Buss Protocell life cycles Tomoko Ohta Early evolution of genes and genomes Karl O. Stetter The lesson of Archaebacteria Otto Kandler The early diversification of life Beverly K. Pierson The emergence, diversification, and role of photosynthetic eubacteria Mitchell L. Sogin The origin of eukaryotes and evolution into major kingdoms J. William Schopf The oldest known records of life: Early Archean stromatolites, microfossils, and organic matter Theme 2: The Maturation of Earth and Life J^ Veizer The Archean-Proterozoic transition and its environmental implications John M. Hayes Global methanotrophy at the Archean-Proterozoic transition Heinrich D. Holland Early Proterozoic atmospheric change John P. Grotzinger Trends in Precambrian carbonate sediments and their implication for understanding evolution Guy Ourisson Biomarkers in the Proterozoic record. Malcolm R. Walter Stromatolites: The main source of information on the evolution of the early benthos Bruce Runnegar Proterozoic eukaryotes: Evidence from biology and geology Gonzalo Vidal Early ecosystems: Limitations imposed by the fossil record F.J.R. "Max" Taylor The role of phenotypic comparisons of living protists in the determination of probable eukaryotic phylogeny L)mn Margulis and Joel E. Cohen Combinatorial generation of taxonomic diversity: Implication of symbiogenesis for the Proterozoic fossil record Stjepko Golubic The continuing importance of cyanobacteria Theme 3: Multicellularity and the Phonerozoic Revolul Hans J. Hofmann Proterozoic carbonaceous compressions ("metaphytes" and "worms") Sun Weiguo Early multicellular fossils Mikhail A. Fedonkin Vendian body fossils and trace fossils Adolf Seilacher Early multicellular life: Late Proterozoic fossils and the Cambrian explosion James W. Valentine The Cambrian explosion Stefan Bengtson The advent of animal skeletons Robert Riding Evolution of algal and cyanobacterial calcification. Andrew H. Knoll Neoproterozoic evolution and environmental change Simon Conway Morris Early metazoan evolution: First steps to an integration of molecular and morphological data , Jan Beigstrdm Ideas on early animal evolution Richard Christen Molecular phylogeny and the origin of Metazoa Reinhard M. Rieger Evolution of the "lower" Metazoa. Rudolf A. Raff Developmental mechanisms in the evolution of animal form: Origins and evolvability of body plans. George L. Gabor Miklos and K.S.W. Campbell From protein domains to extinct phyla: Reverse-engineering approaches to the evolution of biological complexities .
650		0	_aEvolutionary paleobiology _xCongresses. _919256
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