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First life : discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began /
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 origi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.