First Life: Discovering The Connections Between Stars, Cells, And How Life Began
by David Deamer /
2012 / English / PDF
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This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us
from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the
modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's
connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a
new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution
of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars,
planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and
atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds.
Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that
assembled into membrane-bound packages. These in turn provided an
essential compartment in which more complex molecules assumed new
functions required for the origin of life and the beginning of
evolution. Deamer takes us from the vivid and unpromising chaos
of the Earth four billion years ago up to the present and his own
laboratory, where he contemplates the prospects for generating
synthetic life. Engaging and accessible,
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us
from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the
modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's
connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a
new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution
of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars,
planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and
atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds.
Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that
assembled into membrane-bound packages. These in turn provided an
essential compartment in which more complex molecules assumed new
functions required for the origin of life and the beginning of
evolution. Deamer takes us from the vivid and unpromising chaos
of the Earth four billion years ago up to the present and his own
laboratory, where he contemplates the prospects for generating
synthetic life. Engaging and accessible,First Life
First Life
describes the scientific story of astrobiology while presenting a
fascinating hypothesis to explain the origin of life.
describes the scientific story of astrobiology while presenting a
fascinating hypothesis to explain the origin of life.
