Evolution by association : a history of symbiosis /
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| Author / Creator: | Sapp, Jan. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | xvii, 255 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1755306 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Index
