Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells The Enigmatic Smile

Klappentext Eminent historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents an engaging history of the Mormon religion that is full of intricate subplots and peculiar twists. He discusses the Book of Mormon's ambivalence toward republican government and its fascination with records! translation! and history! explores the culture of the Lamanites (the enemies of the favored people)! and recasts Joseph Smith as an original thinker who offered the possibility of belief in a time of growing skepticism. "Believing History" is also a rare and honest confession in which Bushman reflects on his faith and ponders how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. In this book! believers gain a whole new perspective on their religion! nonbelievers learn that Mormonism cannot be summed up with a simple label! and all are treated to a provocative and open look at a believing historian studying his own faith. Zusammenfassung Drawing evidence from molecular biology and the fossil record! this study discusses the evolution of metabolism! the eukaryotic host cell! the evolution of the meiotic cell! the acquisition of mitochondria and plastids! and the controversy over the origin of motility organelles.

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• Authors: Betsey Dexter Dyer, Richard Lyman Bushman, Robert Obar, Betsy Dexter Obar Dyer, Betsy Dexter Dyer, Robert Allan Obar, Robert Alan Obar, Dyer Betsy Dexter
• Assisted by: Reid L. Neilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.05.1994
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780231075923
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07592-3
• Pages: 259
• Series: European Perspectives; Critical Moments in Paleobiology & Earth History S.; European Perspectives
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, SCIENCE / Paleontology, molecular biology, Cellular biology (cytology), Palaeontology