| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 934 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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Cellular origin, life in extreme habitats and astrobiology, 1566-0400 ; volume 22 |
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Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology ; v. 22.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Chemical Evolution The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids / H. James Cleaves and Jeffrey L. Bada -- Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks / Chrisantha Fernando and Vera Vasas -- Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats / Enzo Gallori and Sergio Branciamore -- Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication of Informational Molecules / Kelley Harris and Irene A. Chen -- Life Without Carbon / Rob Hengeveld -- [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life / Kenji Ikehara -- Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth / Kunio Kawamura -- The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life / Osmel Martín, Liuba Peñate, Rolando Cárdenas and J.E. Horvath -- Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach / F.G. Mosqueira, Alicia Negrón-Mendoza, Sergio Ramos-Bernal and Carlos Polanco-Gonzalez -- Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids / Maciej Pawlikowski -- The Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of Life / Michael Simakov -- The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life / David P. Summers |
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pt. 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 / David L. Abel -- Life from Interface / Katsuhiko Ariga, Gary J. Richards and Jonathan P. Hill -- Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life / Tom Barbalet -- Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: A Twenty-First Century Grand Challenge / Bruce Damer, Peter Newman, Ryan Norkus, John Graham and Richard Gordon, et al. -- Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life / Norikazu Ichihashi, Tomoaki Matsuura, Hiroshi Kita, Takeshi Sunami and Hiroaki Suzuki, et al. -- Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process / Vladimir Kompanichenko -- Life Explained by Heat Engines / Anthonie W.J. Muller -- Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes / Albert Rimola, Mariona Sodupe and Piero Ugliengo -- Comets, Information, and the Origin of Life / Robert B. Sheldon -- In Situ High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life / David Wacey |
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pt. 3. The Role of Symmetry, Information and Order in the Origin of Life Disorder to Order, Nonlife to Life: In the Beginning There Was a Mistake / Ernesto Di Mauro, A. Keith Dunker and Edward N. Trifonov -- The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life / B. Roy Frieden and Robert A. Gatenby -- The Origin of First Peptides on Earth: From Amino Acids to Homochiral Biomolecules / Thomas Jakschitz, Daniel Fitz and Bernd Michael Rode -- Chemical Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality / Martin Klussmann -- Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis and the Origin of Biological Chirality / Gábor Lente -- Energy-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Chiral Order (Lessons from Dynamic Systems Modeling) / Radu Popa and Vily Marius Cimpoiasu |
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pt. 4. Panspermia Recurrent Dreams of Life in Meteorites / Richard Gordon and Jesse C. Mcnichol -- Are We from Outer Space? / A Critical Review of the Panspermia Hypothesis / Jesse C. Mcnichol and Richard Gordon -- Origin of Life and Panspermia / Chandra Wickramasinghe |
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pt. 5. The First Steps of Cellular Evolution The Dimeric Proto-Ribosome Within the Modern Ribosome / Ilana Agmon -- Oceanic Arginine Translator: The Origin of Life and Early Evolution of the Genetic Code / Robert W. Griffith -- Tidal Cycling and the Origin of the Genetic Code: Implications for Cellular Life / Richard Lathe -- Heterotrophic Model Protocells / Cristina Del Bianco and Sheref S. Mansy -- A Symbiogenic Way in the Origin of Life / Luísa Pereira, Telma Rodrigues and Francisco Carrapiço -- Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life / Jan Sapp -- On the Vesicular Origin of the Cell Cycle / Saša Svetina -- Hypothesized Microenvironments for the Origin of Microbial Life on Earth / Jack T. Trevors, Asim K. Bej and Jan Dirk van Elsas |
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pt. 6. The Distribution of Life in the Solar System and Elsewhere in the Cosmos What Can Life on Earth Tell Us About Life in the Universe? / Charles H. Lineweaver and Aditya Chopra -- Potential for Life in the Saturn System / François Raulin -- Energy Sources for, and Detectability of, Life on Extrasolar Planets / John A. Raven, Charles S. Cockell and Lisa Kaltenegger -- Habitable Environments by Extremophiles on Earth, the Solar System, and Elsewhere / Joseph Seckbach and Julian Chela-Flores |
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pt. 7. History and Frontiers of Astrobiology and the Humanities Cultural Implications of the Search and Eventual Discovery of a Second Genesis / Roberto Aretxaga-Burgos and Julian Chela-Flores -- The Concept of Chemical Evolution Before Oparin / Florence Raulin-Cerceau -- A History of Origin of Life Ideas from Darwin to NASA / James E. Strick |
| Summary |
Genesis - In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication of polymers in mineral habitats. One chapter is dedicated to the photobiological regime on early Earth and the emergence of Life. This volume covers the role of symmetry, information and order (homochrial biomolecules) in the beginning of Life. The models of protocells and the genetic code with gene transfer are important topics in this volume. Three chapters discuss the Panspermia hypothesis (to answer Are we from outer Space?). Other chapters cover the Astrobiological aspects of Life in the Universe in extraterrestrial Planets of the Solar System and deal with cometary hydrosphere (and its connection to Earth). We conclude with the history and frontiers of Astrobiogy |
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Life sciences |
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Geochemistry |
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Cytology |
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Evolutionary Biology |
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Cell Biology |
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Earth System Sciences |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Life -- Origin.
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Molecular evolution.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Exobiology.
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Origin of Life
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Biological Evolution
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Evolution, Chemical
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Exobiology
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Evolution, Molecular
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evolution.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Molecular Biology.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Exobiology
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Life -- Origin
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Molecular evolution
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seckbach, J. (Joseph)
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| ISBN |
9789400729414 |
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9400729413 |
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9400729405 |
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9789400729407 |
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