商品簡介
"The differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes are much more deep and fundamental than, for example, those between higher animals and higher plants. Numerous facts, especially those from cytology of simplest eukaryotic organisms, support the views of Kozo-Polyansky-Margulis. The eukaryotic cell, compared to a prokaryotic cell, is already rather some sort of `supercell.' A specific `assembly' of a complex eukaryotic system from already largely `prefabricated parts' took place during the process of evolution."---Armen Takhtajan, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sceneces
"How could this book not have been a part of evolutionary biology since its publication in 1924?... What a difference it would have in the `evolutionary synthesis' if this book were easily in the hands of biologists in German or English translation!"---William Provine, Cornell University
More than eighty years ago, before we knew much about the structure of cells, Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky brilliantly outlined the concept of symbiogenesis, the symbiotic origin of cells with nuclei. It was a half-century later, only when experimental approaches that Kozo-Polyansky lacked were applied to his hypotheses, that scientists began to accept his view that symbiogenesis could be united with Darwin's concept of natural selection to explain the evolution of life. After decades of neglect, ridicule, and intellectual abuse, Kozo-Polyansky's ideas are now endorsed by virtually all biologists.
Kozo-Polyansky's seminal work is presented here for the first time in an outstanding annotated translation, updated with commentaries, references. and modern micrographs of symbiotic phenomena.
Jacket Photographs: (front) The "solar powered" animal (Elysio chloraticu, an opisthobrach sea slug) with functional endosymbiotic plastids sequestered from the yellow-green alga vatteheria litrca (Phylum Xanthophyta. Stramenopile). Photosynthetic plastids sustain the mollusk for up to 9 or 10 months, Limited horizontal nuclear gene transfer from the alga to the sea slug has been also demonstrated (Rumpho et al. 2008). (Courtesy Mary Tyler and Mary Rumpho, University of Maine) (front and spine) Androsace kozo-poljanskii (primulaceae). the only plant named after Kozo-Polyansky. (Photograpy: Vyacheslav Ponomatev) (back) Usmanka River valley near Voronezh, close to the field station where kozo-Polyansky worked for decades (photograph: Viktor Golub, Voronezh State University).
作者簡介
Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890-1957) graduated from Moscow University and in 1918 joined a Soviet university in his native Voronezh where he became a vice president as well as director of the local botanical garden.
Victor Fet is Professor of Biology at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
Lynn Margulis is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Peter H. Raven is President of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
