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(1992, NS 84) Harrick Baltscheffsky, Stefan Bengtson, Jan Bergström, Gonzalo Vidal, Andrew Knoll May 15-21, Björkborn Manor, Karlskoga Proceedings: Stefan Bengtson, Jan Bergström, Gonzalo Vidal, Andrew Knoll: Early Life on Earth (1994), Columbia University Press, New York, USA ISBN 0-231-08088-3 |
| Table of Contents | |
| Preface Approaches to understanding early life on Earth | vii |
| Introduction: The coherence
of history Stephen Jay Gould |
1 |
| Theme 1: Life's Gestation and Infancy | |
| The planetary setting of
prebiotic evolution Sherwood Chang |
10 |
| Early environments:
Constraints and opportunities for early evolution Donald R. Lowe |
24 |
| Earth's early atmosphere:
Constraints and opportunities for early evolution Kenneth M. Towe |
36 |
| Early chemical stages in
the origin of life Juan Oró |
48 |
| The transition from
non-living to living Antonio Lazcano |
60 |
| The RNA world, its
predecessors and descendants Antonio Lazcano |
70 |
| Molecular origin and
evolution of early biological energy conversion Herrick Baltscheffsky and Margareta Baltscheffsky |
81 |
| Sources and geochemical
evolution of RNA precursor molecules: The role of
phosphate Benjamin Gedulin and Gustaf Arrhenius |
91 |
| Self-assembly and function
of primitive membrane structures David W. Deamer, Elizabeth Harang Mahon, and Giovanni Bosco |
107 |
| Vitalysts and virulysts: A
theory of self-expanding reproduction Günter Wächtershäuser |
124 |
| Protocell life cycles Leo W. Buss |
133 |
| Early evolution of genes
and genomes Tomoko Ohta |
135 |
| The lesson of
Archaebacteria Karl O. Stetter |
143 |
| The early diversification
of life Otto Kandler |
152 |
| The emergence,
diversification, and role of photosynthetic eubacteria Beverly K. Pierson |
161 |
| The origin of eukaryotes
and evolution into major kingdoms Mitchell L. Sogin |
181 |
| The oldest known records of
life: Early Archean stromatolites, microfossils, and organic
matter J. William Schopf |
193 |
| Theme 2: The Maturation of Earth and Life | |
| The Archean-Proterozoic
transition and its environmental implication Ján Veizer |
208 |
| Global methanotrophy at the
Archean-Proterozoic transition John M. Hayes |
220 |
| Early Proterozoic
atmospheric change Heinrich D. Holland |
237 |
| Trends in Precambrian
carbonate sediments and their implication for understanding
evolution John P. Grotzinger |
245 |
| Biomarkers in the
Proterozoic record Guy Ourisson |
259 |
| Stromatolites: The main
source of information on the evolution of the early
benthos Malcolm R. Walter |
270 |
| Proterozoic eukaryotes:
Evidence from biology and geology Bruce Runnegar |
287 |
| Early ecosystems:
Limitations imposed by the fossil record Gonzalo Vidal |
298 |
| The role of phenotypic
comparisons of living protists in the determination of
probable eukaryotic phylogeny F.J.R. "Max" Taylor |
312 |
| Combinatorial generation of
taxonomic diversity: Implication of symbiogenesis for the
Proterozoic fossil record Lynn Margulis and Joel E. Cohen |
327 |
| The continuing importance
of cyanobacteria Stjepko Golubic |
334 |
| Theme 3: Multicellularity and the Phanerozoic Revolution | |
| Proterozoic carbonaceous
compressions ("metaphytes" and "worms") Hans J. Hofmann |
342 |
| Early multicellular
fossils Sun Weiguo |
358 |
| Vendian body fossils and
trace fossils Mikhail A. Fedonkin |
370 |
| Early multicellular life:
Late Proterozoic fossils and the Cambrian explosion Adolf Seilacher |
389 |
| The Cambrian
explosion James W. Valentine |
401 |
| The advent of animal
skeletons Stefan Bengtson |
412 |
| Evolution of algal and
cyanobacterial calcification Robert Riding |
426 |
| Neoproterozoic evolution
and environmental change Andrew H. Knoll |
439 |
| Early metazoan evolution:
First steps to an integration of molecular and morphological
data Simon Conway Morris |
450 |
| Ideas on early animal
evolution Jan Bergström |
460 |
| Molecular phylogeny and the
origin of Metazoa Richard Christen |
467 |
| Evolution of the "lower"
Metazoa Reinhard M. Rieger |
475 |
| Developmental mechanisms in
the evolution of animal form: Origins and evolvability of
body plans Rudolf A. Raff |
489 |
| From protein domains to
extinct phyla: Reverse-engineering approaches to the
evolution of biological complexities George L. Gabor Miklos and K.S.W. Campbell |
501 |
| References | 517 |
| Index | 599 |
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