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Evolutionary biology, cell-cell communication, and complex disease by Torday, John S.

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The dynamic interactions between cellular-molecular physiology and the environment future directions in cellular-molecular evolutionary biology /

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The evolutionary web of life

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Rationale for homeostatic change as evolution -- Historic perspective on homeostasis -- Lung surfactant as a molecular fossil -- Evolution (ontogeny + phylogeny + homeostasis) -- Molecular evolutionary fossils -- Homology of skin and lung cell physiology -- Lung-skin-brain homology -- Trojan horse effect and asthma -- Homology of alveolus and glomerulus -- Fluid distension and mechanotransduction -- Evolutionary permutations and combinations -- Aging as the inverse of development -- Foregut plasticity -- Evolutionary biology inconsistencies & paradoxes -- The unicellular bauplan -- Pleiotropy and evolution -- From unicellular to multicellular organisms -- Evolution of whole animal physiology -- Alveolar homeostasis -- Phylogenetic parallelisms.…”
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