Early life on earth : Nobel symposium No.84/ edited by Stefan Bengtson

Theme 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 .