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Cosmic Genetic Evolution
- 1st Edition, Volume 106 - October 18, 2020
- Editors: Edward J. Steele, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 5 1 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 5 2 5 - 8
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, C… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCosmic 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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- Presents the latest release in the Advances in Genetics series
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Molecular geneticists, clinical geneticists, neurologists, neuroscientists, molecular biologists, and biochemists
- Cover image
- 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
- No. of pages: 162
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 106
- Published: October 18, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128215180
- eBook ISBN: 9780128215258
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Edward J. Steele
Edward J Steele works at C.Y.O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation
Affiliations and expertise
C.Y.O'Connor ERADE Village FoundationNW
N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
N. Chandra Wickramasinghe works in the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at University of Buckingham, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
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