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LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
LIST OF PHOTOSERIES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Science and church
Science and reasoning
Science, morals and ethics
INTRODUCTION SUMMARY
SECTION ONE: PHYSICAL EVOLUTION
PREAMBLE
THE LAW OF INSTABILITY
THE LAW OF ACTUALISM
THE LAW OF COMBINATORIAL OUTCOME
PREAMBLE SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE
LIFE AS A NATURAL STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATTER
THE SCALE OF TIME AND SPACE
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIVING SYSTEMS
Development of metabolic pathways
CHAPTER ONE SUMMARY
CHAPTER TWO
THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES CONTROLLED BY THE CELL
What determines the physical appearance of an organism
The mechanisms of cell replication
Protein production
What controls diversity within an interbreeding population?
Alleles as variants
How new varieties arise in a population
Why new varieties continue to thrive within a population
How particular varieties become dominant in a gamodeme
Why successful evolutionary lines have suddenly stopped
CHAPTER TWO SUMMARY
CHAPTER THREE
THE CONCEPT OF A SPECIES
WHAT IS A SPECIES?
RATES OF EVOLUTION
Stasigenesis
Orthogenesis
Anagenesis
Typogenesis
HOW NEW SPECIES ARISE: CLADOGENESIS.
Phase of stabilization
Phase of eruption
Phase of disruption
Phase of divergence
APPROACHES TO DATING A PHYLOGENY.
Mitochondrial DNA lineages
Autosomal chromosome lineages
Sex chromosome lineages
CHAPTER THREE SUMMARY
CHAPTER FOUR
A SHORT OUTLINE OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE VERTEBRATES
THE LINEAGES OF FISH
THE LINEAGES OF AMPHIBIANS
THE LINEAGES OF REPTILES
THE LINEAGES OF MAMMALS
CHAPTER FOUR SUMMARY
CHAPTER FIVE
HUMANKIND
ORIGINS
GENETIC EVIDENCE FOR HOMINI EVOLUTION
CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER SIX
PHYLOGENETIC DESCENDENTS
THE CELL AS THE BASIS OF PHYLOGENETIC MODIFICATION
THE ORGANISM AS THE BASIS OF PHYLOGENIC MODIFICATION
HOMO COSMOS
HOMO ROBOTICUS
Consciousness in a manufactured biological body
Consciousness in a manufactured mechanical body
Consciousness in a hybrid bio-mechanical body
Mind transplantation
ROBOTICO EARTHENSIS
Understanding consciousness
Consciousness and the essence of humanity
CHAPTER SIX SUMMARY
SECTION TWO: THE CULTURAL GAMODEME
CHAPTER SEVEN
PHYLOGENY OF THE CULTURAL GAMODEME
THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE
ARCHAEOSOCIETY
PROTOSOCIETY
EUSOCIETY
The rise of monotheism and empire
The rise of reason
CHAPTER SEVEN SUMMARY
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE SOCIAL PRESENT
POPULATION GROWTH
CORPORATE WORLD
INTERNAL CONFLICTS
Sins of the Fathers
Shades of Shakespeare
EXTERNAL CONFLICTS
CHAPTER EIGHT SUMMARY
CHAPTER NINE
THE SOCIAL FUTURE
HUMANITY
GLOBALIZATION AS PART OF THE SOCIAL FUTURE
IMPROVING THE GLOBAL CULTURAL GAMODEME
Education and the lamarckian thread
Maintaining meritocracy
Population pressure
How can society be structured in a fair and equitable manner?
The future of individual freedom under increased population density
Who shall live and who shall die?
Euthanasia
Eugenics
GENETIC INTERVENTIONS
Disease, and deterioration of the body
Aging, senescence and life extension
The possibility of near immortality
THE KNOWLEDGE QUEST AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Emergence
Temporal knowledge
Terraforming Terra
CHAPTER NINE SUMMARY
SECTION THREE: THE QUEST FOR THE STARS
CHAPTER TEN
THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND
MAINTAINING EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL
COLONISING THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Colonization of the Moon
Colonizing of Mars
Europa, etc.
BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Space Liners
Gamodeme composition of a Space Liner>
WILL THE UNIVERSE BE OURS?
Seeking that which creates
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ENDNOTES