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Front Cover -- Biology of Life -- Biology of Life: Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I -- How Life Started -- 1 -- The Physics and Chemistry of Planet Earth -- THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM -- BIRTH OF PLANET EARTH -- THE GEOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF PLANET EARTH -- REFERENCES -- 2 -- How Life Started -- REFERENCES -- 3 -- RNA, Ribozymes, and Early Life Forms -- REFERENCES -- 4 -- Amino Acids and Peptides, Essential Ingredients of Life -- REFERENCES -- 5 -- Biochemistry of Early Life -- REFERENCES -- 6 -- Evolutionary History of Planet Earth -- OXYGEN ATMOSPHERE -- PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS -- MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS -- REFERENCES -- 7 -- What Is Life? -- REFERENCES -- II -- DNA and RNA -- 8 -- The Evolution of DNA and the Genetic Code -- EVOLUTION OF DNA -- EVOLUTION OF THE GENETIC CODE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 9 -- DNA Biology: DNA Replication, Transcription, and Translation -- REPLICATION -- TRANSCRIPTION -- MRNA SPLICING -- TRANSLATION OF MRNA -- GENES AND CHROMOSOMES -- FURTHER READING -- III -- Energetics -- 10 -- Adenosine Triphosphate Energetics -- OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION -- FEEDING PATHWAYS TO OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION -- USE OF ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE ENERGY -- ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND THE HEART -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND THE GENERATION OF OXYGEN AND ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE -- CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHESIS IN BACTERIA -- EVOLUTION OF ENERGETICS -- ENERGETICS AND LIFE -- REFERENCES -- 11 -- Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase -- FURTHER READING -- IV -- 4.5 Billion Years of Evolution -- 12 -- Evolution Timeline -- FURTHER READING -- 13 -- Evolution of Chemical, Prokaryotic, and Eukaryotic Life -- CHEMICAL LIFE -- PROKARYOTIC LIFE -- EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION FROM PROKARYOTES -- EUKARYOTIC LIFE -- FURTHER READING.

14 -- Animal Evolution, Small Brain and Advanced Brain -- ANIMAL AND MAMMAL EVOLUTION -- SMALL BRAIN ANIMALS -- ADVANCED BRAIN ANIMALS -- FURTHER READING -- 15 -- The Evolution of Humans -- THE HUMAN BRAIN -- BIPEDALISM -- REFERENCES -- 16 -- Human Development -- LANGUAGE -- HUMAN PSEUDOEVOLUTION -- REFERENCES -- V -- Human Development -- 17 -- Human Female Oogenesis -- OOGENESIS -- OVULATION -- LUTEOGENESIS -- REFERENCE -- FURTHER READING -- 18 -- Human Male Spermatogenesis -- MITOTIC PROLIFERATION -- MEIOTIC DIVISION -- Cytodifferentiation and Packaging of Sperm Cells -- Endocrine Control of Spermatogenesis -- Maturation of Spermatozoa -- Seminal Fluids -- FURTHER READING -- 19 -- Sperm Activation, Fertilization, Morula, Blastocyst Formation, and Twinning -- SPERM ACTIVATION -- SPERMATOZOA CAPACITATION -- SPERMATOZOA ACROSOME REACTION -- OVUM PROPULSION -- FERTILIZATION -- MORULA AND BLASTOCYST FORMATION -- TWINNING -- FURTHER READING -- 20 -- Multiple Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Molecules -- FIVE OR SIX COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT HCG MOLECULES -- REFERENCES -- 21 -- Implantation and Pregnancy Failure -- IMPLANTATION -- PREGNANCY FAILURE -- REFERENCES -- 22 -- Hemochorial Placentation -- REFERENCES -- 23 -- Human Life, Development of the Human Brain -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 24 -- Human Life -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.