Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life
Author: Harold J. Morowitz
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780425095669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harold J. Morowitz
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780425095669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pier Luigi Luisi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1107092396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fully updated and expanded edition addresses the origins of biological and synthetic life from a systems biology perspective.
Author: David Deamer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0520258320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All life starts as stardust and all life requires packaging for molecules, proteins, DNA, and other crucial bits. Introducing astrobiology, this book presents a provocative hypothesis for the environmental conditions and raw materials needed for life to begin and evolve on earth.
Author: Pier Luigi Luisi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1139455648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the consecutive stages from prebiotic chemistry to synthetic biology, uniquely combining both approaches. This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organisation, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of synthetic and biological examples. With end-of-chapter review questions to aid reader comprehension, this book will appeal to graduate students and academics researching the origin of life and related areas such as evolutionary biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics and natural sciences.
Author: James Trefil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-08-24
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 113675363X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edited by acclaimed science writer and physicist James Trefil, the Encyclopedia's 1000 entries combine in-depth coverage with a vivid graphic format to bring every facet of science, technology, and medicine into stunning focus. From absolute zero to the Mesozoic era to semiconductors to the twin paradox, Trefil and his co-authors have an uncanny ability to convey how the universe works and to show readers how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.
Author: David W. Deamer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 0190098996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I'll begin with a challenging question: Why should anyone want to know about the origin of life? The answers will vary from one person to the next, but the simplest answer is curiosity. Anyone reading this introduction is curious because they wonder how life could have begun on the Earth, but there is more to it than that. My friend Stuart Kauffman wrote a book with the title At Home in the Universe. The title refers to a deep sense of satisfaction that comes when we begin to understand how our lives on Earth are connected to the rest of the universe. There are surprises and revelations as we discover those connections"--
Author: Donald Mender
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1489960104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl R. Woese
Publisher: Carolina Biological Supply Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9780892782130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jan Spitzer
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0262045575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells. Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins research by exploiting a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces and covalent bond formation--a physicochemical approach propounded originally by Linus Pauling and Max Delbrück. Spitzer develops the Pauling-Delbrück premise as a physicochemical jigsaw puzzle that identifies key stages in life's emergence, from the formation of first oceans, tidal sediments, and proto-biofilms to progenotes, proto-cells and the first cellular organisms.