Herrera's 'Plasmogenia' and Other Collected Works Early Writings on the Experimental Study of the Origin of Life /

• Main Authors: Cleaves, Henderson James (Author), Lazcano, Antonio (Author), Ledesma Mateos, Ismael (Author), Negrón-Mendoza, Alicia (Author), Peretó, Juli (Author), Silva, Ervin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Biology > Philosophy.; Evolutionary biology.; Astrobiology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.

This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1942), a pioneer in experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works represent the attempt to deal experimentally...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Notes
• 2. Foreword by Professor James Strick
• 3. Introduction
• 4. Nociones de Biologia ("Concepts in Biology")
• 5. Plasmogeny
• 6. La Plasmogenia, Una Nueva Ciencia de la Vida ("Plasmogeny, A New Science of Life”).