Research Catalog

Title

The origins of prebiological systems and of their molecular matrice : proceedings of a conference conducted at Wakulla Springs, Florida, on 27-30 October, 1963, under the auspices of the Institute for Space Biosciences [of] the Florida State University and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration / edited by Sidney W. Fox.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fox, Sidney W.
• Florida State University. Institute for Space Biosciences.
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Description

xx, 482 pages illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Subject

• Molecular evolution > Congresses
• Origin of Life
• 42.21 evolution
• Molecular evolution
• Biogenese
• Biochemie
• Biologische aspecten

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• Proceedings of the 2d of a series of meetings; proceedings of the 1st are entered under International Symposium on the Origin of Life on the Earth, Moscow, 1957; the 3d, under International Conference on the Origin of Life.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Perspectives I : Chairman’s remarks / N. W. Pirie -- Data needed for a blueprint of the first organisms / J. B. S. Haldane : Discussion -- Random polymers as a matrix for chemical evolution / M. S. Blois : Discussion -- The folly of probability / Peter T. Mora : Discussion -- Molecular matrices for living systems / J. D. Bernal -- Introduction of Dr. Oparin / J. B. S. Haldane -- History of the subject matter of the conference / A. I. Oparin : Discussion -- Micromolecules : Chairman’s remarks / J. M. Buchanan -- Two aspects of the geochemistry of amino acids / J. R. Vallentyne : Discussion -- Asymmetric hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds / Shiro Akabori : Discussion -- Stages and mechanisms of prebiological organic synthesis / J. Oro : Discussion -- Amino acids, peptides, and spherules obtained from “primitive earth” gases in a sparking system / Karl A. Grossenbacher and C. A. Knight : Discussion -- The thermal synthesis of amino acids from a hypothetically primitive terrestrial atmosphere / Kaoru Harada and Sidney W. Fox : Discussion -- Chairman’s remarks / E. E. Snell -- Primordial ultraviolet synthesis of nucleoside phosphates / Carl Sagan -- Abiological synthesis of some nucleic acid constituents / Cyril Ponnamperuma : Discussion -- Probable synthesis of porphine-like substances during chemical evolution / Anton Szutka : Discussion -- Macromolecules : Chairman’s remarks / A. E. Mirsky -- Projecting backward from the present stage of evolution of biosynthesis / Fritz Lipmann : Discussion -- Random polycondensation of sugars / Peter T. Mora -- Thermal polycondensation of free amino acids with polyphosphoric acid / Kaoru Harada and Sidney W. Fox : Discussion -- Synthesis of nucleosides and polynucleotides with metaphosphate esters / Gerhard Schramm : Discussion -- Thermal condensation of cytidylic acid in the presence of polyphosphoric acid / A. W. Schwartz, E. Bradley, and Sidney W. Fox : Discussion -- Models of precellular organization : Introduction remarks / H. Burr Steinbach -- The pathways of the primary development of metabolism and artificial modeling of this development in coacervate drops / A. I. Oparin : Discussion -- Morphology and chemistry of microspheres from proteinoid / Richard S. Young : Discussion -- Comments / Sidney W. Fox -- Simulated natural experiments in spontaneous organization of morphological units from proteinoid / Sideny W. Fox : Discussion -- Perspectives II : The recognition of hereditary order in primitive chemical systems / H. H. Pattee : Discussion -- Coding triplets in the evolution of hemoglobin and cytochromes c genes / T. H. Jukes : Discussion -- The role of light in evolution: transition from one quantum to a two quanta mechanism / Hans Gaffron : Discussion.

LCCN

64024656

OCLC

• ocm00326954
• 326954
• SCSB-292028

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library