Cosmic Genetic Evolution

1st Edition, Volume 106 - October 18, 2020
Editors: Edward J. Steele, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
Language: English
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Cosmic Genetic Evolution, Volume 106 in the Advances in Genetics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Panspermia, Cometary Panspermia and Origin of Life, The Efficient Lamarckian Spread of Life in the Cosmos, The Sociology of Science and Generality of the DNA/RNA/Protein Paradigm Throughout the Cosmos, The Mutagenic Source and Power of Our Own Evolution, Origin of New Emergent Coronavirus and Candida Fungal Diseases – Terrestrial or Cosmic?, and Future Prospects for Investigation -The Near-Earth Neighborhood and Beyond.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword: Some things are simply given
Preface: The origin of life and astrobiology
Disclaimer and acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction—Panspermia, 2020
Abstract
Chapter Two: Cometary panspermia and origin of life?
Abstract
1: Historical context
2: Earliest life on Earth
3: Improbability of the origin of life
4: Interstellar dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and biological molecules
5: Comets and biomaterial
6: Some predictions of interstellar panspermia
Chapter Three: The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos
Abstract
1: The traditional neoDarwinian view of life and evolution
2: The rise of the neoLamarckian acquired inheritance paradigm
3: Conclusions
Chapter Four: The sociology of science and generality of the DNA/RNA/protein paradigm throughout the cosmos
Abstract
1: The socio-economic control of science
2: Transition to modern times
3: Cosmic biology as a scientific theory
4: Predictions from 1979 and 1982
5: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)
6: Viral sequences in genomes
7: Further predictions of interstellar panspermia
8: Concluding remarks
Chapter Five: The mutagenic source and power of our own evolution
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Deaminases as an endogenous source of mutations
3: Deaminases in immunity
4: Deaminase target site access is directed by epigenetic markers
5: Linking deaminase activity to the formation and inheritance of instincts
6: Deaminases in disease
7: The role of deaminases in normal healthy cells
8: The role of big data
9: Consciously directing the evolution of HomoSapv2.0
Chapter Six: Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Sudden simultaneous emergence of Candida auris infections in separate global regions
3: Sudden emergence new Coronavirus (COVID-19) causing respiratory infections in Wuhan, China and neighboring regions
4: Conclusions
5: Postscript
Acknowledgment
Appendix A
Appendix B as February 15, 2020
Appendix C
Chapter Seven: A cosmic virosphere
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: The rationale for a cosmic virosphere
3: A dynamic microbiome—Evidence of co-evolution
4: Endogenous viruses
5: First signs of life on Earth
6: Evolution of cosmic life
7: Mixing of genes on a galactic scale
8: Distinction between bacteria and viruses
Chapter Eight: An internet of microbes straddling the cosmos
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Bacteria, viruses and comets
3: Microbial network on the Earth
4: Synthesis and concluding remarks
Chapter Nine: Is the 2019 novel coronavirus related to a spike of cosmic rays?
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Competing interests
Chapter Ten: Microbial transfers from Venus to Earth
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Clouds of Venus
3: Exotic microbiology on Venus
4: Solar wind erosion of the Venusian atmosphere
5: Early work of D.R. Barber
6: Future inferior conjunctions and microbial transfers
Chapter Eleven: Experiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth
Abstract
1: Early evidence
2: Millennial studies
3: Flux of microbes from space
4: Experiments by Wainwright's team
5: Experiments planned by NIFS Sri Lanka
6: Bacteria and viruses in the earth environment
7: Direct evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites
8: Problem of distinguishing indigenous terrestrial microbiota from bacteria of space origin

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