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Genesis : the scientific quest for life's origin

Title: Genesis : the scientific quest for life's origin / Robert M. Hazen.
Author: Hazen, Robert M., 1948-
Publication: Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xix, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Genesis throws the debate about life's origins into relief, tracing the efforts of scientists all over the world as they confront nature's most enduring mystery. We are taken out of the lab and into the field to meet the key players, witness the debates, and participate in the discoveries and disappointments that are leading inexorably to a plausible explanation for the momentous beginning of life. The theory of emergence is poised to answer a multitude of questions - even as it raises the possibility that natural processes exist beyond what we now know, perhaps beyond what we even comprehend. Genesis tells the tale of transforming scientific advances in our quest for life's origins."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.

Contents

Foreword / David Deamer -- Pt. I. Emergence and the origin of life -- 1. The missing law -- 2. What is life? -- 3. Looking for life -- 4. Earth's smallest fossils -- 5. Idiosyncrasies -- Interlude - God in the gaps -- Pt. II. The emergence of biomolecules -- 6. Stanley Miller's speak of genius -- 7. Heaven or Hell? -- 8. Under pressure -- 9. Productive environments -- Interlude - mythos versus logos -- Pt. III. The emergence of macromolecules -- 10. The macromolecules of life -- 11. Isolation -- 12. Minerals to the rescue -- 13. Left and right -- Interlude - where are the women? -- Pt. IV. The emergence of self-replicating systems -- 14. Wheels within wheels -- 15. The iron-sulfur world -- 16. The RNA world -- 17. The pre-RNA world -- 18. The emergence of competition -- 19. Three scenarios for the origin of life -- Epilogue - the journey ahead.

ISBN

0309094321

LCCN

2005012839

OCLC

ocm60321860
SCSB-5277598

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Columbia University Libraries