Fungal biology in the origin and emergence of life

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"The rhythm of life on Earth includes several strong themes contributed by Kingdom Fungi. So why are fungi ignored when theorists ponder the origin of life? Casting aside common theories that life originated in an oceanic primeval soup, in a deep, hot place, or even a warm little pond, this is a mycological perspective on the emergence of life on Earth. The author traces the crucial role played by the first biofilms - products of aerosols, storms, volcanic plumes and rainout from a turbulent atmosphere - which formed in volcanic caves 4 billion years ago. Moore describes how these biofilms contributed to the formation of the first prokaryotic cells, and later, unicellular stem eukaryotes, highlighting the role of the fungal grade of organisation in the evolution of higher organisms. Based on the latest research, this is a unique account of the origin of life and its evolutionary diversity to the present day. [This volume] proposes a new and unique view of the origin and evolution of life on Earth, weaving the evolution of fungi into the evolution of eukaryotes; explains the origins of all groups of higher organisms (eukaryotes), showing how the features of present-day fungi can account for the ancestral evolution of the eukaryote grade of evolution; emphasises twenty-first-century research in disciplines ranging from astronomy to zoology, providing readers with the most complete and contemporary treatment of the topic." -- Publisher's description.

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231

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Table of Contents

Learning from life on Earth in the present day
Essentials of fungal cell biology
First, make a habitat
The building blocks of life
An extraterrestrial origin of life?
Endogenous synthesis of prebiotic organic compounds on the young Earth
Cooking the recipe for life
"It's life, Jim"
Coming alive:what happened and where?
My name is Luca
Towards eukaryotes
Rise of the fungi
Emergence of diversity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
Origin and emergence of life

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Dewey Decimal Class
571.5/92
Library of Congress
QK604.2.E85 M66 2013

The Physical Object

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vi, 231 pages
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26918352M
Internet Archive
fungalbiologyori00moor
ISBN 10
1107652774
ISBN 13
9781107652774
LCCN
2012029375
OCLC/WorldCat
808416972

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