Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Cosmic Evolution, Life and Man
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   Chapter 2 Experimental Retracement of Terrestrial Origin of an Excitable Cell: Was it Predictable?
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   Chapter 3 Cosmology: the Universe in Evolution
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   Chapter 4 From Cosmic Formation of Chiral Bioorganics in Interstellar Dust to Comet Seeds of Life’s Origins: Are 10 25 Chances Enough ?
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   Chapter 5 Strategies for the Search of Life in the Universe
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   Chapter 6 Age of the Isua Supracrustal Sequence of West Greenland: A plausible repository for early life
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   Chapter 7 Clays as Natural Catalyst in Prebiotic Processes
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   Chapter 8 Role of Transient and Stable Molecules in Chemical Evolution
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    Chapter 9 Lightning Associated to Archean Volcanic Ash-Gas Clouds
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    Chapter 10 Evolutionary, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Aspects on the Bioenergetics of Inorganic Pyrophosphate (PPi) and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
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    Chapter 11 Mineral Metal Sulphur Clusters as a Testbed for Studies of Evolutionary Continuity
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    Chapter 12 Thermal Peptides as the Initial Genetic System
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    Chapter 13 Origin of Nucleic Acids
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    Chapter 14 Origin of Fatty Acids
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    Chapter 15 Oxygen and the Rapid Evolution of Life on Mars
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    Chapter 16 First Steps in Eukaryogenesis: Physical phenomena in the origin and evolution of chromosome structure
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    Chapter 17 Biological Aspects of the Origin of Life: Open Questions in Eukaryogenesis
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    Chapter 18 A Putative Living Fossil of the RNA World is Likely to be of Recent Origin
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    Chapter 19 Thermodynamic Nature of the Biological Evolution the Model and the Reality
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    Chapter 20 Boltzmann’s Dynamics on the Primitive Earth about 3.8 Billion Years Ago
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    Chapter 21 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties of Prebiological Open Systems
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    Chapter 22 On the Determination of the Physical Origin of Homochirality in Life
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    Chapter 23 Possible Role of Phosphoryl Group Excitation in Chemical Evolution
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    Chapter 24 Basic Models of Chemical Evolution of Life: The minimum evolving system
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    Chapter 25 Ab Initio Calculation of Molecular Energies Including Parity Violating Interactions
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    Chapter 26 Prebiotic Chemical Evolution and Darwinian Revolution
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    Chapter 27 «La Grande Galerie de L’Evolution» of Paris: The Only Museum in the World Entirely Devoted to Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 28 New Approaches in Mathematical Biology: Information Theory and Molecular Machines
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    Chapter 29 Information-Processing Genes: Molecular Biology in the Computational Paradigm
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    Chapter 30 Progress in Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Radio Signals
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    Chapter 31 SETI from the Moon
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    Chapter 32 In Situ Exploration of Titan and Cometary Nucleus: Implication for Exobiology
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    Chapter 33 Looking for the Homochiral Signature of Life: The Seth Cigar
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    Chapter 34 Strategy for Detection of Bioorganic Compounds on Mars
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    Chapter 35 Martian Soil Analysis
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    Chapter 36 Excerpts from Letters Read at the Conference
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    Chapter 37 Speakers from Scientific Academies and Foundations of which Cyril Ponnamperuma was a Member