The First Steps of Life
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The First Steps of Life

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The First Steps of Life

About this book

Origin of Life studies have a nearly-impossible goal: understanding nature through the comprehension of its origins and its complexities. As a growing field with poorly-defined borders, Origin of Life studies profit from progress in other disciplines.

This book proposes both an overview of this large area and an in-depth look at the opinions and results obtained by some of the active contributors of this fascinating and deeply thought-provoking matter.

The topics are presented in a bottom-up order, first touching on the habitability of the universe, then the rationale behind meaningful prebiotic chemistry, the possible or probable prebiotic chemical frames, the problem of chirality, and moving on through the role of minerals in biogenesis, biogenic fertile environments, the in-and-out problem as solved by vesicles physics, the evolution of the codes, the structure of LUCA and its proto metabolisms and the meaning of complex extant biological biomorphs, as exemplified by viroids.

These topics and the reasoning within the chapters are provided against the backdrop of the evolution of information and complexity.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781789451658
eBook ISBN
9781394264148
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Emergence of Life-Nurturing Conditions in the Universe
  7. 2 Chirality and the Origins of Life
  8. 3 The Role of Formamide in Prebiotic Chemistry
  9. 4 A Praise of Imperfection: Emergence and Evolution of Metabolism
  10. 5 Viruses, Viroids and the Origins of Life
  11. 6 Is the Heterotrophic Theory of the Origin of Life Still Valid?
  12. 7 Making Biochemistry-Free (Generalized) Life in a Test Tube
  13. 8 Hydrothermalism for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Simplest Life-Like System on the Hadean Earth
  14. 9 Studies in Mineral-Assisted Protometabolisms
  15. 10 A Rationale for the Evolution of the Genetic Code in Relation to the Stability of RNA and Protein Structures
  16. List of Authors
  17. Index
  18. End User License Agreement