Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

• Main Authors: Rauchfuss, Horst (Author), Mitchell, Terence N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Chemistry.; Life sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Astrobiology.; Nature.; Environment.; Anthropology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Evolutionary Biology.; Life Sciences, general.

Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, we only have a great number of - to some extent even contradictory – hypotheses. Meanwhile there came up some scientific findings beyond thought only a few years ago. Horst Ra...