The importance of B.M. Kozo-Polyansky's work for modern science / Liya N. Khakhina
Introduction / Peter H. Raven
Note to the reader / Lynn Margulis
Kozo-Polyansky's life / Victor Fet
Original Russian book title page
Modern status of Kozo-Polyansky's view of the net of life : symbiogenesis refined by Darwin-Wallace "natural selection"
Noncellular organisms (cytodes) and bioblasts (prokaryotes)
The cell and its organelles
The philosophy of symbiogenesis
History of symbiogenesis theory
References to Kozo-Polyansky's text
Modern classification of life (most inclusive "higher" taxa)