Hypersea : life on land / Mark A.S. McMenamin and Dianna L.S. McMenamin
| Author(s): | McMenamin, Mark A |
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| Subjects: | Hypersea Symbiogenesis |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Columbia University Press, [1994] |
| LC Classification: | Q, QH |
| Table of Contents: | Foreword / Lynn Margulis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Hypersea 1 Why Hypersea? 3 Hypersea in the Fossil Record 7 Internal Ecology: Hypersea in Animals 10 Solving the Diversity Paradox 15 2. The Interior Sea 22 Blood as Seawater? 23 The Rising Tide of Land Life 25 Hypersea's Impact on Climate 27 Hypersea's Impact on Evolution 31 Hypersea's Impact on the Oceans 33 3. The Marine Prelude 36 Symbiogenesis and the Origins of Complex Cells 36 The Oxygen Revolution 37 Who Were the Symbionts? 40 Kingdom Taxonomy 42 The Garden of Ediacara 46 Fall of the Garden of Ediacara 50 4. Land Life Before Hypersea 58 The First Fossils 58 Modern Analogs of Early Land Ecologies 60 The Ecology and Fossil Record of Fungi 62 A Brief Taxonomy of Fungi 64 The Intrepid Lichens 67 Living in the Rock and "Lichen" It 70 Bacteria on Land 73 Plants Defined 76 The Earliest Land Plants 78 5. Exploiting Osmosis for Hypersea Physiology 81 Stepwise Evolution of Ecophysiology in Plants 82 Osmotic Challenges for Animals 84 Plant Exploitation of Osmosis 87 Extending Vernadsky's Law 89 6. Hypermarine Aspects of Plants and Fungi 94 Clues from Scraps and Spores 95 Tracing the Evolution of Vascular Plants 100 Plant Development Turned Inside Out 138 Ecological Causes of Life Cycle Changes 143 Triumph of the Sporophyte and the Expansion of Hypersea 148 Strange Hydraulics in Devonian Fossils 152 The Origin of Plant-Fungal Symbiosis 164 The Fungal Fusion Hypothesis of Pirozynski and Malloch 171 Summary of Hypersea Aspects of Plant and Fungi Evolution 181 7. Animals and Hypersea 183 Terrestrial Challenges for Animal Respiration 184 Arthropods Arrive on Land 188 Beerbower's Litter Box Hypothesis 194 A Hypersea Alternative to the Litter Box 199 The Parasitic Pentastomes 200 8. Parasitism in Hypersea 206 Navigating Through Hypersea 207 Escaping the Trap of Host Extinctions 212 Hypersea, the Biogeophysical Entity 213 Hypersea, the Theory 216 9. Hypermarine Oceanography 223 Hypermarine Upwelling and Biomass Enhancement 224 Currents on Land 226 The Strange Case of Septobasidium 228 Body Fluids as Community Property 231 Hypermarine Sediments and Evaporites 234 Hypersea as a Biogeological System 237 10. Humans as Reservoirs of Hypersea 242 Our Inner Biota 242 Toxoplasma and the Marburg Virus 246 AIDS, Viroids, and the Mixing of Alien Hypersea Fluids 249 The Evolutionary Potential of Hypersea 251 The Research Potential of Hypersea Theory 253 Notes 257 Glossary 285 Figure Sources and Credits 307 Index 313 |
| Additional Authors: | McMenamin, Dianna L. Schulte |
| Notes: | LCCN: 94015324 ISBN: 0231075308 (acid-free paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 343 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 30670298 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0231075308 |