| Description |
148 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH. -- The origin and evolution of the solar system / A. G. W. Cameron -- The origin of the earth / Harold C. Urey -- The earth / Raymond Siever -- PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY. -- The chemistry of the solar system / John S. Lewis -- The origin of life / George Wald -- The amateur scientist: experiments in generating the constitutents of living matter from inorganic substances / C. L. Stong -- PROTOCELLS AND FOSSILS. -- The oldest fossils / Elso S. Barghoorn -- Chemical fossils / Geoffrey Eglington and Melvin Calvin -- THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF LIFE. -- The genetic code: III / F. H. C. Crick -- Symbosis and evolution / Lynn Margulis -- Computer analysis of protein evolution / Margaret Oakley Dayhoff -- EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE. -- The search for life on Mars / Norman H. Horowitz -- Life outside the solar system / Su-Shu Huang |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [143]-145 |
| Subject |
Life -- Origin.
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Biogenesis
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| Author |
Folsome, Clair Edwin, 1935-
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Scientific American, inc.
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| LC no. |
78015129 |
| ISBN |
0716710323 (paperback) |
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0716710331 |
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