| Preface |
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| About the Authors |
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1 The Cellular Origin of Vertebrates |
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The Origins of Unicellular Life on Earth |
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Prokaryotes versus Eukaryotes |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (2) |
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Cholesterol Facilitates Lipid Rafts for Cell-Cell Communication |
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7 | (2) |
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9 | (1) |
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The Cellular Mechanism of Evolution |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (1) |
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Cell-Cell Communication and Aging |
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12 | (5) |
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2 Reducing Lung Physiology to Its Molecular Phenotypes |
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17 | (8) |
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Hormonal Acceleration of Lung Development |
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17 | (2) |
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Neutral Lipid Trafficking and Lung Evolution |
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19 | (4) |
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Other Examples of Cellular Cooperativity |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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3 A Cell-Molecular Strategy for Solving The Evolutionary Puzzle |
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25 | (10) |
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Rationale for Cell-Molecular Evolution |
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25 | (3) |
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Mechanism of Mammalian Lung Development |
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28 | (4) |
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Avian Lung Structure-Function Relationship: The Exception that Proves the Rule |
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32 | (1) |
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Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? The Role of PTHrP in Lung Development |
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32 | (1) |
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Interrelationship between PTHrP, Development, Physiology, and Repair: Is Repair a Recapitulation of Ontogeny and Phylogeny? |
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33 | (2) |
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4 The Evolution of Cell-Cell Communication |
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Cell-Cell Communication as the Mechanistic Basis for Evolutionary Biology |
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36 | (1) |
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The Darwinian Biologic Spacetime Continuum and Einstein's Vision of the Universe |
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37 | (1) |
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Reverse Engineering of Physiologic Traits as a Portal for Viewing Evolution |
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38 | (3) |
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Cell-Cell Communication as the Basis for the Evolution of Metazoans |
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41 | (1) |
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Understanding Lung Evolution from the Middle Out |
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42 | (1) |
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The Cell-Cell Communication Model of Lung Evolution Traces Contemporary Phenotypes Back to Ancestral Phenotypes |
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43 | (1) |
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Predictive Value of the Lung Cell-Cell Communication Model for Understanding the Evolution of Physiologic Systems |
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44 | (2) |
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Sexual Dimorphism of Lung Development: A Case Study in Cell-Cell Communication and Evolutionary Plasticity |
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46 | (2) |
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Androgen Affects the Expression of Growth Factors Involved in Lung Development |
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48 | (1) |
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Evidence for an Association between Steroid-Resistant/Responsive Phenotypes and Human Lymphocyte Antigen (HLA) Haplotypes |
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49 | (4) |
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5 How to Integrate Cell-Molecular Development, Homeostasis, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology: The Missing Links |
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53 | (22) |
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Neutral Theory versus Intelligent Design |
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54 | (1) |
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Internal Selection Theory |
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54 | (3) |
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The Counterintuitive Nature of Physiology and Solution to the Dead Sea Scrolls Puzzle |
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57 | (1) |
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The Continuum from Microevolution to Macroevolution |
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58 | (11) |
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cis Regulation and Adaptive Evolution |
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69 | (1) |
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Evolution of cis Regulatory Mechanisms |
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70 | (5) |
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6 From Cell-Cell Communication to The Evolution of Integrated Physiology |
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75 | (20) |
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Cell-Cell Signaling and Alveolar Development: A Reductionist Approach to the Evolution of Physiologic Traits |
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77 | (2) |
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An Integrated, Empiric, Middle-Out Approach to Physiology |
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79 | (3) |
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A Molecular Evolutionary Link between the Lung and the Kidney? |
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82 | (1) |
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The Berner Hypothesis and Emergence of the Adipocyte: The Evolutionary Origins of the Lipofibroblast |
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83 | (2) |
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Lung Biology as a Cipher for Evolution |
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85 | (1) |
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Do Stretch Effects on PTHrP Expression Reflect Its Role in Adapting to Gravity? |
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85 | (3) |
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Wolff's Law Works for Both Bone and Lung |
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88 | (1) |
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Functional Relationship between the External and Internal Environments |
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89 | (2) |
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An Evolutionary Vertical Integration of the Phylogeny and Ontogeny of the Thyroid |
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91 | (4) |
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7 Exploiting Cell-Cell Communication Across Spacetime to Deconstruct Evolution |
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Somewhere between the Gene and the Phenotype Lies the Process of Evolution |
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98 | (2) |
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A Functional Genomic Approach to Evolution as an Example of Terminal Addition |
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100 | (2) |
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Seeking Deep Homologies in Lung Evolution |
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102 | (3) |
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Systems Biology Based on Cell-Cell Communication |
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105 | (3) |
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Vertical Integration of Leptin Signaling, Human Evolution, and the Trojan Horse Effect |
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108 | (1) |
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Leptin and Human Evolution: Food for Thought |
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109 | (6) |
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8 The Periodic Table of Biology |
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The Prospect of a Periodic Table of Biology |
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115 | (1) |
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Cellular Cooperation Is Key |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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Evolution as the Solution |
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119 | (2) |
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Ramping Up a Mathematical Model of Evolution |
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121 | (3) |
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The Anthropic Principle Results from the Evolution of Cell-Cell Interactions |
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124 | (1) |
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9 Value Added by Thinking in Terms of The Cell-Cell Communication Model for Evolution |
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125 | (14) |
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This is Not a Just-So Story |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (1) |
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From Fat Cells to Integrated Physiology |
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128 | (1) |
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Molecular Homologies Distinguish between the Evolutionary Forest and Trees |
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129 | (1) |
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The Oxygen-Cholesterol-Surfactant-Membrane Connection |
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130 | (1) |
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Cholesterol Metabolism as the Data Operating System for Vertebrate Biology? |
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131 | (1) |
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Translation of Genomics into the Periodic Table for Biology |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (1) |
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Selection Pressure for Cell-Cell Communication: The Key to Understanding Evolution |
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135 | (4) |
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10 Cell-Cell Communication as The Basis for Practicing Clinical Medicine |
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139 | (12) |
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Cell-Cell Communication Maintenance and Breakdown Represent Heath and Disease, Respectively |
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140 | (1) |
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Cell-Cell Communications as a Framework for Human Evolution |
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140 | (1) |
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Canalization, Decanalization, and the Holistic Approach to the Practice of Medicine |
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141 | (1) |
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Exploiting Lung Evolution to Prevent and Treat Chronic Lung Disease |
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141 | (1) |
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Lung Evolution Explains the Magic of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure |
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142 | (1) |
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The Paradox of Infecting the Lung in Order to Treat Lung Disease Caused by Infection |
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143 | (1) |
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Exploiting Lung Evolution to Prevent and Treat Smoking-Related Lung Damage |
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144 | (1) |
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The Trojan Horse Effect of Canalization |
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145 | (1) |
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Impetus for Evolutionary Science as an Integral Part of the Clinical Curriculum |
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146 | (1) |
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Application of Evolutionary Science to Bioethics |
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147 | (1) |
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Evolutionary Science, a Biologic Periodic Table, and a Unified Theory of Biology |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (2) |
| Name Index |
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151 | (2) |
| Subject Index |
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