First life discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began

A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : li...

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1. Verfasser: Deamer, David W. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley u.a. Universtiy of California Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life.
A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index
Beschreibung:IX, 271 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780520258327
978-0-520-25832-7
0520258320
0-520-25832-0