Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization
If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical “standard models” even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet? Scientists are hindered by conceptual gaps between bottom-up infere...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Energy as the Common Denominator: Energetics of the First Life
- A Hypothesis for a Unified Mechanism of Formation and Enantioenrichment of Polyols and Aldaric, Aldonic, Amino, Hydroxy and Sugar Acids in Carbonaceous Chondrites
- On the Origin of Phosphorylated Biomolecules
- Abiotic Photosynthesis: From Prebiotic Chemistry to Metabolism
- Salt-Induced Peptide Formation in Chemical Evolution: Building Blocks before RNA - Potential of Peptide Splicing Reactions
- Scenario of the Primary Pump: Emergence and Operation of an Automatic Engine to Generate Primordial Peptides and Beyond Nucleic Acids
- The Relevance of Peptides that Bind FeS Clusters, Phosphate Groups, Cations or Anions for Prebiotic Evolution
- Peptide-Dominated Vesicles: Bacterial Internal Membrane Compartments as Model Systems for Prebiotic Evolution
- Nicotinamide Coenzyme Synthesis: a Case of Ribonucleotide Emergence or a Byproduct of the RNA World?- On Alternative Biological Scenarios for the Evolutionary Transitions to DNA and Biological Protein Synthesis
- Two RNA Worlds: Toward the Origin of Replication, Genes, Recombination and Repair
- Integrative Perspectives: In Quest of a Coherent Framework for Origins of Life on Earth.
