Genesis - in the beginning
Subtitle: precursors of life, chemical models and early biological evolution
By: edited by Joseph Seckbach
Series: Cellular origin, life in extreme habitats and astrobiology -- v. 22; Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology -- v. 22.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 934
ISBN-13: 9789400729407; 9789400729414
Subjects: Origin; Exobiology; Life; Evolution (Biology); Molecular evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Origins of life : keeping options open / Alan W. Schwarz; title: The prebiotic chemistry of alternative nucleic acids / H. James Cleaves II and J.L. Bada; title: Cooptive evolution of prebiotic chemical networks / C. Fernando and V. Vasas; title: Origin and evolution of self-replicating polymers on mineral habitats / E. Gallori and S. Branciamore; title: Mathematical models of prebiotic replication of informational molecules / K. Harris and I.A. Chen; title: Life without carbon / R. Hengeveld; title: (GADV)-protein world hypothesis on the origin of life / K. Ikehara; title: Reality of the emergence of lifelike systems from simple prebiotic polymers on primitive earth / K. Kawamura; title: The photobiological regime in the very early earth and the emergence of life / O. Martín et al.; title: Prebiotic formation of peptides : a Markov chain approach / F.G. Mosqueira et al.; title: Atomic structural templates of the earliest life on earth : vibration and lightning experiments with quartz and amino acids / M. Pawlikowski; title: The chemical evolution in open space : a link to the origin of life / M. Simakov; title: The prebiotic chemistry of nitrogen and the origin of life / D.P. Summers; title: Moving "far from equilibrium" in a prebiotic environment : the role of Maxwell's demon in life origin / D.L. Abel; title: Life from interface / K. Ariga et al.; title: Breaking the paradigm : the pattern of life / T. Barbalet; title: Cyberbiogenesis and the evogrid : a twenty-first century grand challenge / B. Damer et al.; title: Constructive approaches for the origin of life / N. Ichihashi et al.; title: Origin of life by thermodynamic inversion : a universal process / V. Kompanichenko; title: Life explained by heat engines / Anthonie W.J. Muller; title: Computational simulations of prebiotic processes / A. Rimola et al.; title: Comets, information, and the origin of life / Robert B. Sheldon; title: In situ high spatial resolution techniques in the search for the origin of life / D. Wacey; title: Disorder to order, nonlife to life : in the beginning there was a mistake / E. Di Mauro et al.; title: The role of information and order in the origin of life / B. Roy Frieden and R.A. Gatenby; title: The origin of first peptides on earth : from amino acids to homochiral biomolecules / T. Jakschitz et al.; title: Chemical models for the origin of biological homochirality / M. Klussmann; title: Absolute asymmetric synthesis and the origin of biological chirality / G. Lente; title: Energy-driven evolution of prebiotic chiral order (lessons from dynamic systems modeling) / R. Popa and Vily M. Cimpoiasu; title: Recurrent dreams of life in meteorites / R. Gordon and J.C. McNichol; title: Are we from outer space? : a critical review of the panspermia hypothesis / J.C. McNichol and R. Gordon; title: Origin of life and panspermia / C. Wickramasinghe; title: The dimeric proto-ribosome within the modern ribosome / I. Agmon; title: Oceanic arginine translator : the origin of life and early evolution of the genetic code / R.W. Griffith; title: Tidal cycling and the origin of the genetic code : implications for cellular life / R. Lathe; title: Heterotrophic model protocells / C. Del Bianco and S.S. Mansy; title: A symbiogenic way in the origin of life / L. Pereira et al.; title: Horizontal gene transfer and the tree of life / J. Sapp; title: On the vesicular origin of the cell cycle / S. Svetina; title: Hypothesized microenvironments for the origin of microbial life on earth / J.T. Trevors et al.; title: What can life on earth tell us about life in the universe? / Charles H. Lineweaver and A. Chopra; title: Potential for life in the Saturn system / F. Raulin; title: Energy sources for, and detectability of, life on extrasolar planets / J.A. Raven et al.; title: Habitable environments by extremophiles on earth, the solar system, and elsewhere / J. Seckbach and J. Chela-Flores; title: Cultural implications of the search and eventual discovery of a second genesis / R. Aretxaga-Burgos and J. Chela-Flores; title: The concept of chemical evolution before Oparin / F. Raulin-Cerceau; title: A history of origin of life ideas from Darwin to NASA / J.E. Strick.