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Title

Evolution by association : a history of symbiosis / by Jan Sapp.

Author

Sapp, Jan.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description

255 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Symbiosis > History
• Symbiogenesis > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-248) and index.

Contents

• 1. Symbiosis: Evolution in Action. The Origins of the Word. Making Associations -- 2. The Meanings of Mutualism. The Political Context of Mutualism. The Plover and the Crocodile. Protesting the Gladiator's Show. Symbiosis as Mutualism. Organicism, Symbiosis, and the Division of Labor. Symbiosis as Parasitism. The Synthesis of New Individuals -- 3. Socially Constructing the Individual. Cell Theory Is Social Theory. The Cell as a Collective. Nucleocentricism -- 4. Symbiogenesis in Russia. The Experimental Ideal. Merezhkovskii Claims Priority. Mycoplasm and Amoeboplasm. Refuge in Geneva. The Sacred Fire of the Lighthouse -- 5. Engendering Genesis Stories. Feminine Nature. Convoluta. Problems with Protista. Organisms without Cells. A Midsummer-Night's Fantasy? Missing Mitochondria -- 6. Les Symbiotes and Germ Theory. Neo-Lamarckism, Infection, and Immunity. The Prince and the Pauper. Challenging the Doctrine of Asepsis. Symbiotes and Vitamins. The Rhetoric of Les Symbiotes. Mitochondria Are Bacteria.
• Cultivating Mitochondria. The Physiological Role of Symbiotes -- 7. The Pasteurization of Les Symbiotes. Making a Revolution - Winning the Election. A Showdown with the Pasteurians. Protests and Priority. Critiques from Lyon. "Wrong on Every Point"? Les Mythes des Symbiotes. Bacteriophage and "Microlichen" "The Thankless Task of Precursor" -- 8. Les Symbiotes Revisited. Rediscovery in the United States. Translation and Transformation. Local Debates in a Global Context. Theory Mongering in the United States. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics. A Failed Revolution. Falling in the Cracks -- 9. Verbal Phantoms. A Committee on Terminology. Problems in Cost-Benefit Accounting. Hostile Symbiosis. Conflict in Cooperative Ecology. Evolution in the Study of Symbiosis? The Organism as Functional Field. One Germ Plasm - One Organism -- 10. Organisms and the Edge of Disciplines. Plasmagenes, Viruses, and Viroids. Inherited Symbionts: Bad Pennies. Changing Concepts of Heredity.
• Lysogeny, Symbiosis, and Technoevolution. The Plasmid: A Discursive Ploy. The Unbound Organism. "Switching" Metaphors -- 11. Molecular Reconstruction. Poor Cousins. The Genetics of Symbiosis. Eukaryote Origins: The Space Race. The Argument from Dr. Pangloss. Serial Endosymbiosis Theory -- 12. The Dull Edge of Ockham's Razor. The Argument for Simplicity. Together They Stand; Divided They Fall. A Revival of Special Creation? Are Origin Stories Scientific? Closing the Controversy -- 13. Is Nature Motherly? The Human Nature of Origin Stories. Back to Gaia. Mother Nature, Antiscience and Myth. Tit for Tat. Delimiting Symbiosis.

ISBN

• 0195088204 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0195088212 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94006321

OCLC

• 29913047
• ocm29913047

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries