Early life on earth : Nobel symposium No.84/ 
edited by Stefan Bengtson 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  1994. 
 - x, 630 p.   27 cm. 
<br/><br/>Theme 1: Life's Gestation and Infancy<br/>Sherwood Chang The planetary setting of prebiotic evolution<br/>Donald R. Lowe Early environments: Constraints and opportunities<br/>for early evolution<br/>Kenneth M. Towe Earth's early atmosphere: Constraints and<br/>opportunities for early evolution<br/>Juan Oro Early chemical stages in the origin of life<br/>Antonio Lazcano The transition from non-living to living<br/>Antonio Lazcano The RNA world, its predecessors and descendants<br/>Herrick Baltscheffsky and Margareta Baltscheffsky Molecular origin<br/>and evolution of early biological energy conversion<br/>Benjamin Gedulin and Gustaf Airhenius Sources and geochemical<br/>evolution of RNA precursor molecules: The role of phosphate<br/>David W. Deamer, Elizabeth Harang Mahon, and Giovanni Bosco<br/>Self-assembly and function of primitive membrane structures.<br/>Giinter Wachtershauser Vitalysts and virulysts: A theory of<br/>self-expanding reproduction<br/>Leo W. Buss Protocell life cycles<br/>Tomoko Ohta Early evolution of genes and genomes<br/>Karl O. Stetter The lesson of Archaebacteria<br/>Otto Kandler The early diversification of life<br/>Beverly K. Pierson The emergence, diversification, and role of<br/>photosynthetic eubacteria<br/>Mitchell L. Sogin The origin of eukaryotes and evolution into<br/>major kingdoms<br/>J. William Schopf The oldest known records of life: Early Archean<br/>stromatolites, microfossils, and organic matter<br/>Theme 2: The Maturation of Earth and Life<br/>J^ Veizer The Archean-Proterozoic transition and its<br/>environmental implications<br/>John M. Hayes Global methanotrophy at the Archean-Proterozoic<br/>transition<br/>Heinrich D. Holland Early Proterozoic atmospheric change<br/>John P. Grotzinger Trends in Precambrian carbonate sediments<br/>and their implication for understanding evolution<br/>Guy Ourisson Biomarkers in the Proterozoic record.<br/>Malcolm R. Walter Stromatolites: The main source of information<br/>on the evolution of the early benthos<br/>Bruce Runnegar Proterozoic eukaryotes: Evidence from biology<br/>and geology<br/>Gonzalo Vidal Early ecosystems: Limitations imposed by the fossil record<br/>F.J.R. "Max" Taylor The role of phenotypic comparisons of living<br/>protists in the determination of probable eukaryotic phylogeny<br/>L)mn Margulis and Joel E. Cohen Combinatorial generation of<br/>taxonomic diversity: Implication of symbiogenesis for the<br/>Proterozoic fossil record<br/>Stjepko Golubic The continuing importance of cyanobacteria<br/>Theme 3: Multicellularity and the Phonerozoic Revolul<br/>Hans J. Hofmann Proterozoic carbonaceous compressions<br/>("metaphytes" and "worms")<br/>Sun Weiguo Early multicellular fossils<br/>Mikhail A. Fedonkin Vendian body fossils and trace fossils<br/>Adolf Seilacher Early multicellular life: Late Proterozoic fossils<br/>and the Cambrian explosion<br/>James W. Valentine The Cambrian explosion<br/>Stefan Bengtson The advent of animal skeletons<br/>Robert Riding Evolution of algal and cyanobacterial calcification.<br/>Andrew H. Knoll Neoproterozoic evolution and environmental change<br/>Simon Conway Morris Early metazoan evolution: First steps to an<br/>integration of molecular and morphological data ,<br/>Jan Beigstrdm Ideas on early animal evolution<br/>Richard Christen Molecular phylogeny and the origin of Metazoa<br/>Reinhard M. Rieger Evolution of the "lower" Metazoa.<br/>Rudolf A. Raff Developmental mechanisms in the evolution of<br/>animal form: Origins and evolvability of body plans.<br/>George L. Gabor Miklos and K.S.W. Campbell From protein<br/>domains to extinct phyla: Reverse-engineering approaches<br/>to the evolution of biological complexities . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0231080883 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evolutionary paleobiology--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>560