Part I
Problems of Biosphere Evolution and Origin of Life
On Important Stages of Geosphere and Biosphere Evolution ........ 3
Dobretsov N.L., Kolchanov N.A., Suslov V.V.
Microbial Biosphere ....................................... 25
Zavarzin G.A.
Part II
Prebiological Stages of Evolution and RNA World on the Earth
and in the Space
Astrocatalysis Hypothesis for Origin of Life Problem ........... 45
Snytnikov V.N.
Comets, Carbonaceous Meteorites, and the Origin of
the Biosphere .................................................. 55
Hoover R.B.
Hierarchical Scale-Free Representation of Biological Realm-
Its Origin and Evolution ....................................... 69
Zhuravlev Yu.N., Avetisov V.A.
The Prebiotic Phase of the Origin of Life as Seen by
a Physical Chemist ............................................. 89
Parmon V.N.
Prebiotic Carbohydrates and Their Derivates ................... 103
Pestunova O.P., Simonov A.N., Snytnikov V.N., Parmon V.N.
Theoretical and Computer Modeling of Evolution of
Autocatalytic Systems in a Flow Reactor ....................... 119
Bartsev S.I., Mezhevikin V.V.
RNA World: First Steps Towards Functional Molecules ........... 131
Lutay A.V, Zenkova M.A., Vlassov V.V.
Trans Hammerhead Ribozyme: Ligation vs. Cleavage .............. 143
Vorobjeva M.A., Privalova A.S., Venyaminova A.G., Vlassov V.V.
Paradoxical Bistate Status of a Prebiotic Microsystem:
Universal Predecessor of Life ................................. 157
Kompanichenko V.N.
Part III
Archaen-Proterozoic Ecosystems: Their Interaction and
Contemporary Analogous
The Ancient Anoxic Biosphere Was Not As We Know It ............ 169
Fallick A.E., Melezhik V.A.. Simonson B.M.
Evolutionary Aspects of Geochemical Activity of Microbial
Mats in Lakes and Hydrotherms of Baikal Rift Zone ............. 189
Namsaraev B.B., Gorlenko V.M., Namsaraev Z.B,
Barkhutova D.D., Kozyreva L.P., Dagurova O.P., Tatarinov A.V.
On the concept for the Organization of the Modern Biosphere
in the Terrestrial Subsurface ................................. 203
Oborin A.A., Rubinstein L.M.. Khmurchik V.T.
Biomineralization and Evolution. Coevolution of Mineral and
Biological Worlds ............................................. 211
Barskov l.S.
Visualization of the Silicon Biomineralization In
Cyanobacteria, Sponges and Diatoms ............................ 219
Likhoshway Ye.V., Sorokovikova E.G., Belykh O.I.,
Kaluzhnaya O.L.V., Belikov S.I., Bedoshvili Ye.D.,
Kaluzhnaya O.K.V., Masyukova Ju.A., Sherbakova T.A.
Transformational Changes in Argillaceous Minerals due to
Cyanobacteria ................................................. 231
Alekseeva T.V., Gerasimenko L.M., Sapova E.V., Alekseev A.O.
Part IV
Coevolution of Geological and Biological Events in Phanerozoe
Ecological Revolution Through Ordovician Biosphere (495 to
435 Ma ages): Start of the Coherent Life Evolution ............ 245
Kanygin A.V.
Part V
Ecosystems and Molecular Genetic Factors of Organism Evolution
Evolution by Gene Duplications: from the Origin of
the Genetic Code to the Human Genome .......................... 257
Rodin S.N., Rodin A.S.
Evolution of the Translation Termination System in
Eukaryotes .................................................... 277
Zhouravleva G.A., Tarasov O.V., Schepachev V.V.,
Moskalenko S.E., Abramson N.I., Inge-Vechtomov S.G.
The Hedgehog Signaling Cascade System: Evolution and
Functional Dynamics ........................................... 289
Gunbin K.V., Afonnikov D.A., Omelyanchuk L.V., Kolchanov N.A.
Approaches to the Resolution of Contradictions Between
Phylogenetic Systems Based on Paleontological and Molecular
Data .......................................................... 303
Rautian G.S., Rautian A.S., Kalandadze N.N.
Chromosomes and Speciation .................................... 315
Borodin P.M.
Biotic Turnover in Superorganism Systems: Several Principles
of Establishment and Sustenance (Theoretical Analysis,
Debatable Issues) ............................................. 327
Gubanov V.G. and Degermendzhy A.G.
Chromosomes and Continents .................................... 349
Kiknadze I.I., Gunderina L.I., Butler M.G., Wuelker W.F.,
Martin J.
Part VI
Biosphere and Human Being
Genetic Landscape of the Central Asia and Volga-Ural Region ... 373
Khusnutdinova E.K., Bermisheva M.A., Kutuev I.A.,
Yunusbayev B.B., Villems R.
Problems of Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment and
Conditions of the Habitability of the Ancient Man by
the Example of Northwestern Altai ............................. 383
Agadjanian A.K.
The Settling of the Ancient Man by the Example of
North-Western Altai ........................................... 395
Derevianko A.P., Shunkov M.V.
Evolutionary History of Wheats - the Main Cereal of Mankind ... 407
Goncharov N.P., Golovnina K.A., Kilian B., Glushkov S.,
Blinov A., Shumny V.K.
Subject Index ................................................. 421
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