Table of Contents
The first life. The evolution of the earliest cells / J. William Schopf -- The emergence of animals / Mark A.S. McMenamin -- Challenges in the sea. Symbiosis in the deep sea / James J. Childress, Horst Felbeck and George N. Somero -- Antarctic fishes / Joseph T. Eastman and Arthur L. DeVries -- Intertidal fishes / Michael H. Horn and Robin N. Gibson -- Beating the odds. Thermoregulation in winter moths / Bernd Heinrich -- The physiology of the koala / Robert Degabriele -- Carnivorous plants / Yolande Heslop-Harrison -- The perils of parasitism. Communication between ants and their guests / Bert Hèolldobler -- Slavery in ants / Edward O. Wilson -- How the trypanosome changes its coat / John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner -- Viroids / T.O. Diener.