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  title info:
    title: Genesis - In The Beginning
    sub title: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution
  name:
    name part: Seckbach, Joseph.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXIX, 934 p. 268 illus., 99 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book deals with the Origin of Life on Earth and planets, which is currently a very “hot” topic dealt with at several international meetings, conferences and workshops by various societies and groups. The current volume is number 22 of the “Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology” series (COLE) published by Springer. The contributors review new data in this field, following current studies from gene and molecular to macro levels. The extremophiles – microorganisms living at the edge of Life under very severe conditions (from our anthropocentric view point) - may point out possibilities of existing Life forms on other planets and satellites. In eight sections and fifty chapters, the seventy-five authors cover subjects such as chemical evolution, the function of geophysics in Life’s origin, the first steps of cellular evolution, Panspermia (the theory claiming that the source of Life is not from Earth but from Outer Space), possibility of extraterrestrial Life (Astrobiology), and the history of origin of Life on Earth and beyond. This up-to-date book complements volume 6 (Origin Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life (2004) in the COLE series (ISBN: 978-1-4020-1813-8) published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Professor D. Deamer ends his Introduction with these words: Future progress in understanding the origin of life will involve simulations of prebiotic conditions that take this complexity into account. Some of the chapters in this book focus on specific aspects of the chemical and physical processes that would be involved in life's origins, while others incorporate increments in complexity such as mineral surfaces and compartments. In a sense, each chapter represents a piece of a puzzle, and readers who take the time to read all the chapters may see unexpected patterns emerge that will give clues to solving the puzzle. The primary audience for this book are general biologists, geologists, geneticists, astrobiologists and astrophysicists, an…
  table of contents: PRELIMINARY SECTION: Pathways to “Genesis - In the Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution” -- Introduction to Genesis - In The Beginning.-Foreword.-Origins of Life - Keeping Options Open -- PART 1. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION: The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids -- Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks -- Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats -- Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication: A Primer for Experimentalists -- Life without Carbon; Rob Hengeveld -- [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life -- Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth -- The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life -- Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach -- Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids -- Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of Life -- The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life -- PART 2. THE ROLE OF PHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICS IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE: Moving ‘Far from Equilibrium’ in a Prebiotic Environment: The Role of Maxwell’s Demon in Life Origin -- Life from Interface -- Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life -- Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: a 21st Century Grand Challenge -- Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life -- Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process -- Life Explained by Heat Engines -- Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes -- The Cometary Hydrosphere -- In Situ, High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life -- PART 3. THE ROLE OF SYMMETRY, INFORMATION AND ORDER IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: Disorder to Order, Non-Life to Life. In the Beginning There Was a Mistake -- The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life -- The Origin of First Peptides on Earth – From Amin…
  note: edited by Joseph Seckbach.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Cell biology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Cell Biology
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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