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The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution
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The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Eugene V. Koonin

From the publisher

The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to begin to build a new, much more detailed, complex, and realistic picture of evolution. The book examines a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology including the inadequacy of natural selection and adaptation as the only or even the main mode of evolution; the key role of horizontal gene transfer in evolution and the consequent overhaul of the Tree of Life concept; the central, underappreciated evolutionary importance of viruses; the origin of eukaryotes as a result of endosymbiosis; the concomitant origin of cells and viruses on the primordial earth; universal dependences between genomic and molecular-phenomic variables; and the evolving landscape of constraints that shape the evolution of genomes and molecular phenomes.

Details

  • Title The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution
  • Author Eugene V. Koonin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 516
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher FT Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780132542494 / 0132542498
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolution (Biology), Genomes
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.8

About the author

Eugene V. Koonin is a Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health), as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Biology Direct." Dr. Koonin's group performs research in many areas of evolutionary genomics, with a special emphasis on whole-genome approaches to the study of major transitions in life's evolution, such as the origin of eukaryotes, the evolution of eukaryotic gene structure, the origin and evolution of different classes of viruses, and evolutionary systems biology. Dr. Koonin is the author of more than 600 scientific articles and a previous book "Sequence--Evolution--Function: Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics "(with Michael Galperin [2002] New York: Springer).

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