First life
Subtitle: discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began
By: David Deamer
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780520258327
Subjects: Origin; Exobiology; Life; Evolution (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: A fireball over Australia; title: Where did life begin?; title: When did life begin?; title: Carbon and the building blocks of life; title: The handedness of life; title: Energy and life's origins; title: Self-assembly and emergence; title: How to build a cell; title: Achieving complexity; title: Multiple strands of life; title: Catalysts : life in the fast lane; title: Copying life's blueprints; title: How evolution begins; title: A grand simulation of prebiotic earth; title: Prospects for synthetic life.