Chemical evolution and the origin of life Up to now we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life we only have a great number of to some extent even contradictory hypotheses. Meanwhile there came up some scientific findings beyond thought only a few years ago. Horst Rauchfuss is comparing the different theories from the view of the latest results and is giving an exciting and easy understandable insight into the present state of research. BOOK JACKET