Biosphere Origin and Evolution - Dobretsov, Nikolay; Kolchanov, Nikolay; Rozanov, Alexey; Zavarzin, Georgy; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Problems of Biosphere Evolution and Origin of Life -- On Important Stages of Geosphere and Biosphere Evolution -- Microbial Biosphere -- Prebiological Stages of Evolution and RNA World on the Earth and in the Space -- Astrocatalysis Hypothesis for Origin of Life Problem -- Comets, Carbonaceous Meteorites, and the Origin of the Biosphere -- Hierarchical Scale-Free Representation of Biological Realm-Its Origin and Evolution -- The Prebiotic Phase of the Origin of Life as Seen by a Physical Chemist -- Prebiotic Carbohydrates and Their Derivates -- Theoretical and Computer Modeling of Evolution of Autocatalytic Systems in a Flow Reactor -- RNA World: First Steps Towards Functional Molecules -- Trans Hammerhead Ribozyme: Ligation vs. Cleavage -- Paradoxical Bistate Status of a Prebiotic Microsystem: Universal Predecessor of Life -- Archaen-Proterozoic Ecosystems: Their Interaction and Contemporary Analogous -- The Ancient Anoxic Biosphere Was Not As We Know It -- Evolutionary Aspects of Geochemical Activity of Microbial Mats in Lakes and Hydrotherms of Baikal Rift Zone -- On the concept for the Organization of the Modern Biosphere in the Terrestrial Subsurface -- Biomineralization and Evolution. Coevolution of Mineral and Biological Worlds -- Visualization of the Silicon Biomineralization in Cyanobacteria, Sponges and Diatoms -- Transformational Changes in Argillaceous Minerals due to Cyanobacteria -- Coevolution of Geological and Biological Events in Phanerozoe -- Ecological Revolution Through Ordovician Biosphere (495 to 435 Ma ages): Start of the Coherent Life Evolution -- Ecosystems and Molecular Genetic Factors of Organism Evolution -- Evolution by Gene Duplications: from the Origin of the Genetic Code to the Human Genome -- Evolution of the Translation Termination System in Eukaryotes -- The Hedgehog Signaling Cascade System: Evolution and Functional Dynamics -- Approaches to the Resolution of Contradictions Between Phylogenetic Systems Based on Paleontological and Molecular Data -- Chromosomes and Speciation -- Biotic Turnover in Superorganism Systems: Several Principles of Establishment and Sustenance (Theoretical Analysis, Debatable Issues) -- Chromosomes and Continents -- Biosphere and Human Being -- Genetic Landscape of the Central Asia and Volga-Ural Region -- Problems of Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment and Conditions of the Habitability of the Ancient Man by the Example of Northwestern Altai -- The Settling of the Ancient Man by the Example of North-Western Altai -- Evolutionary History of Wheats-the Main Cereal of Mankind.
Keywords: Ecology .; Evolutionary biology; Clinical psychology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Clinical Psychology