The Chemistry Of Life S Origins

Author : J. Mayo Greenberg,C.X. Mendoza-Gómez,Valerio Pirronello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401119368

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The Chemistry of Life’s Origins by J. Mayo Greenberg,C.X. Mendoza-Gómez,Valerio Pirronello Pdf

This volume contains the lectures presented at the second course of the International School of Space Chemistry held in Erice (Sicily) from October 20 - 30 1991 at the "E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture". The course was attended by 58 participants from 13 countries. The Chemistry of Life's Origins is well recognized as one of the most critical subjects of modem chemistry. Much progress has been made since the amazingly perceptive contributions by Oparin some 70 years ago when he first outlined a possible series of steps starting from simple molecules to basic building blocks and ultimate assembly into simple organisms capable of replicating, catalysis and evolution to higher organisms. The pioneering experiments of Stanley Miller demonstrated already forty years ago how easy it could have been to form the amino acids which are critical to living organisms. However we have since learned and are still learning a great deal more about the primitive conditions on earth which has led us to a rethinking of where and how the condition for prebiotic chemical processes occurred. We have also learned a great deal more about the molecular basis for life. For instance, the existence of DNA was just discovered forty years ago.

Author : Michele Fiore
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039216062

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The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry of Biomolecules by Michele Fiore Pdf

Studying the origin of life is one of man’s greatest achievements over the last sixty years. The fields of interest encompassed by this quest are multiple and interdisciplinary: chemistry, physics, biology, biochemistry, mathematics, geology but also statistics, atmospheric science, meteorology, oceanography, and astrophysics. Recent scientific discoveries, such as water on Mars and the existence of super-Earths with atmospheres similar to primordial Earth, have pushed researchers to simulate prebiotic conditions in explaining the abiotic formation of molecules essential to life. This collection of articles offers an overview of recent discoveries in the field of prebiotic chemistry of biomolecules, their formation and selection, and the evolution of complex chemical systems.

Author : Pier Luigi Luisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139455640

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The Emergence of Life by Pier Luigi Luisi Pdf

The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the consecutive stages from prebiotic chemistry to synthetic biology, uniquely combining both approaches. This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organisation, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of synthetic and biological examples. With end-of-chapter review questions to aid reader comprehension, this book will appeal to graduate students and academics researching the origin of life and related areas such as evolutionary biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics and natural sciences.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521073790

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The Chemistry of Life by Joseph Needham Pdf

This assembly of lectures should appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the nature of living things. Seven of the eight lectures are by eminent biochemists and describe the development of their own subject 'from the inside; the eighth is a more general one.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309042468

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The Search for Life's Origins by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution Pdf

The field of planetary biology and chemical evolution draws together experts in astronomy, paleobiology, biochemistry, and space science who work together to understand the evolution of living systems. This field has made exciting discoveries that shed light on how organic compounds came together to form self-replicating molecules-the origin of life. This volume updates that progress and offers recommendations on research programs-including an ambitious effort centered on Mars-to advance the field over the next 10 to 15 years. The book presents a wide range of data and research results on these and other issues: The biogenic elements and their interaction in the interstellar clouds and in solar nebulae. Early planetary environments and the conditions that lead to the origin of life. The evolution of cellular and multicellular life. The search for life outside the solar system. This volume will become required reading for anyone involved in the search for life's beginnings-including exobiologists, geoscientists, planetary scientists, and U.S. space and science policymakers.

Author : Peter Walde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540277595

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Prebiotic Chemistry by Peter Walde Pdf

Author : Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Science
ISBN : NAP:13084

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The Search for Life's Origins by Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution Pdf

Annotation This National Research Council book was written by a group of professionals with expertise in astronomy, paleobiology, biochemistry, and space science who gathered to study the origin of life--how organic compounds come together to form self-replicating molecules. They also offer recommendations on research programs--including an ambitious effort centered on Mars--to advance the field over the next ten to fifteen years. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Stephen Finney Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015025154264

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Chemical Evolution by Stephen Finney Mason Pdf

This fascinating survey takes chemistry as the central science of all materials at the molecular level, and brings together both organic and inorganic aspects in a clear account of the development of ideas of chemical evolution.

Author : Anna Neubeck,Sean McMahon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030810399

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Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life by Anna Neubeck,Sean McMahon Pdf

This book presents an overview of current views on the origin of life and its earliest evolution. Each chapter describes key processes, environments and transition on the long road from geochemistry and astrochemistry to biochemistry and finally to the ancestors of today ́s organisms. This book combines the bottom-up and the top-down approaches to life including the origin of key chemical and structural features of living cells and the nature of abiotic factors that shaped these features in primordial environments. The book provides an overview of the topic as well as its state of the art for graduate students and newcomers to the field. It also serves as a reference for researchers in origins of life on Earth and beyond.

Author : Ferris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471831239

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Chemistry of Life S Origins by Ferris Pdf

Author : Michele Fiore
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781839164804

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Prebiotic Chemistry and Life's Origin by Michele Fiore Pdf

How life originated from the inanimate mixture of organic and inorganic compounds on the priomordial earth remains one of the great unknowns in science. This origin of life, or abiogenesis, continues to be examined in the context of the conditions and materials required for natural life to have begun on Earth both theoretically and experimentally. This book provides a broad but in-depth analysis of the latest discoveries in prebiotic chemsitry from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale; utilising experimental insight to provide a bottom up approach to plausibly explaining how life arose. With contributions from global leaders, this book is an ideal reference for postgraduate students and a single source of comprehensive information on the latest technical and theoretical advancements for researchers in a variety of fields from astrochemistry and astrophysics to organic chemistry and evolution.

Author : P. L. Luisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521821177

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The Emergence of Life by P. L. Luisi Pdf

Uniquely combining biology and philosophy, this book offers a systematic course in the emergence of life from inanimate matter through to cellular life. With review questions included, this book will appeal to graduate students, academics and researchers in the field of the origin of life and other related areas.

Author : Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
ISBN : MINN:319510005365975

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The Origin of Life on the Earth by Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin Pdf

Author : R.J.P Williams,J.J.R Fraústo da Silva
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080460526

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The Chemistry of Evolution by R.J.P Williams,J.J.R Fraústo da Silva Pdf

Conventionally, evolution has always been described in terms of species. The Chemistry of Evolution takes a novel, not to say revolutionary, approach and examines the evolution of chemicals and the use and degradation of energy, coupled to the environment, as the drive behind it. The authors address the major changes of life from bacteria to man in a systematic and unavoidable sequence, reclassifying organisms as chemotypes. Written by the authors of the bestseller The Biological Chemistry of the Elements - The Inorganic Chemistry of Life (Oxford University Press, 1991), the clarity and precision of The Chemistry of Evolution plainly demonstrate that life is totally interactive with the environment. This exciting theory makes this work an essential addition to the academic and public library. * Provides a novel analysis of evolution in chemical terms * Stresses Systems Biology * Examines the connection between life and the environment, starting with the ‘big bang' theory * Reorientates the chemistry of life by emphasising the need to analyse the functions of 20 chemical elements in all organisms

Author : Stoyan K. Smoukov,Joseph Seckbach,Richard Gordon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119555520

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Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life by Stoyan K. Smoukov,Joseph Seckbach,Richard Gordon Pdf

Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life provides a forum to compare and contrast the many hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the origin of life. There is a revolution brewing in the field of Origin of Life: in the process of trying to figure out how Life started, many researchers believe there is an impending second creation of life, not necessarily biological. Up-to-date understanding is needed to prepare us for the technological, and societal changes it would bring. Schrodinger’s 1944 “What is life?” included the insight of an information carrier, which inspired the discovery of the structure of DNA. In “Conflicting Models of the Origin of Life” a selection of the world’s experts are brought together to cover different aspects of the research: from progress towards synthetic life – artificial cells and sub-cellular components, to new definitions of life and the unexpected places life could (have) emerge(d). Chapters also cover fundamental questions of how memory could emerge from memoryless processes, and how we can tell if a molecule may have emerged from life. Similarly, cutting-edge research discusses plausible reactions for the emergence of life both on Earth and on exoplanets. Additional perspectives from geologists, philosophers and even roboticists thinking about the origin of life round out this volume. The text is a state-of-the-art snapshot of the latest developments on the emergence of life, to be used both in graduate classes and by citizen scientists. Audience Researchers in any area of astrobiology, as well as others interested in the origins of life, will find a modern and current review of the field and the current debates and obstacles. This book will clearly illustrate the current state-of-the-art and engage the imagination and creativity of experts across many disciplines.