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Life in the Universe

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Life in the Universe
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    Chapter 2 The Abdus Salam Lecture Introduction
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    Chapter 3 The Beginning of Chemical Evolution Experiments
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    Chapter 4 An Overview of Cosmic Evolution
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    Chapter 5 Physical Phenomena Underlying the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 6 The Origin of Biogenic Elements
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    Chapter 7 Thermochemistry of the Dark Age
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    Chapter 8 Searching for Oldest Life on Earth: A Progress Report
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    Chapter 9 The European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association
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    Chapter 10 The Origin of Biomolecular Chirality
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    Chapter 11 Salam Hypothesis and The Role of Phase Transition In Amino Acids
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    Chapter 12 A Mechanism for the Prebiotic Emergence of Proteins
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    Chapter 13 Functional, Self-Referential Genetic Coding
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    Chapter 14 Importance of Biased Synthesis in Chemical Evolution Studies
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    Chapter 15 When did Information First Appear in the Universe?
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    Chapter 16 Prebiotic Organic Synthesis and the Emergence of Life: From the Miller Experiment to the Start of Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 17 Origin and Evolution of Very Early Sequence Motifs in Enzymes
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    Chapter 18 The Lipid World: From Catalytic and Informational Headgroups to Micelle Replication and Evolution Without Nucleic Acids
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    Chapter 19 Coenzymes in Evolution of the RNA World
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    Chapter 20 The Role of Heat in the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 21 A Possible Pathway for the Transfer of Chiral Bias from Extraterrestrial C α -Tetrasubstituted α-Amino Acids to Proteinogenic Amino Acids
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    Chapter 22 Prebiotic Polymerization of Amino Acids. A Markov Chain Approach
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    Chapter 23 The Electrochemical Reduction of CO 2 to Formate in Hydrothermal Sulfide ore Deposit as a Novel Source of Organic Matter
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    Chapter 24 Towards a Chronological Order of the Amino Acids
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    Chapter 25 Origin and Evolution of Metabolic Pathways
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    Chapter 26 Conserved Oligopeptides in the Rubisco Large Chains
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    Chapter 27 On the Question of Convergent Evolution in Biochemistry
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    Chapter 28 Diversity of Microbial Life on Earth and Beyond
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    Chapter 29 Mineral Surfaces as a Cradle of Primordial Genetic Material
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    Chapter 30 Adsorption and Self-Organization of Small Molecules on Inorganic Surfaces
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    Chapter 31 Studies on Copper Chromicyanide as Prebiotic Catalyst
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    Chapter 32 Phosphate Immobilization by Primitive Condensers
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    Chapter 33 Adsorption and Catalysis of Nucleotide Hydrolysis by Pyrite in Media Simulating Primeval Aqueous Environments
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    Chapter 34 Dust and Planet Formation in the Early Universe
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    Chapter 35 Quasar Absorption-Line Systems and Astrobiology
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    Chapter 36 A New Search for Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way
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    Chapter 37 Space Weather and Space Climate
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    Chapter 38 Spontaneous Generation of Amino Acid Structures in the Interstellar Medium
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    Chapter 39 Experimental Study of the Degradation of Complex Organic Molecules. Application to the Origin of Extended Sources in Cometary Atmospheres
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    Chapter 40 Fate of Glycine During Collapse of Interstellar Clouds and Star Formation
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    Chapter 41 Formation of Simplest Bio-Molecules During Collapse of an Interstellar Cloud
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    Chapter 42 Chemical Abundances of Cometary Meteoroids from Meteor Spectroscopy
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    Chapter 43 Viable Halobacteria from Ancient Oceans—and in Outer Space?
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    Chapter 44 Mars-Like Soils in the Yungay Area, the Driest Core of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile
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    Chapter 45 The Discovery of Organics in Sub-Basement Fossil Soils Drilled in the North Pacific (Odp Leg 197): Their Model Formation and Implications for Astrobiology Research
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    Chapter 46 Silica-Carbonate Biomorphs and the Implications for Identification Of Microfossils
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    Chapter 47 Some Statistical Aspects Related to the Study of Treeline in Pico de Orizaba
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    Chapter 48 The Beagle 2 Lander and the Search for Traces of Life on Mars
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    Chapter 49 Minimal Unit of Terraforming an Alternative for Remodelling Mars
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    Chapter 50 Early Archaean Life
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    Chapter 51 Extraterrestrial Impacts on Earth and Extinction of Life in the Himalaya
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    Chapter 52 Palaeobiology and Biosedimentology of the Stromatolitic Buxa Dolomite, Ranjit Window, Sikkim, Ne Lesser Himalaya, India
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    Chapter 53 Searching for Extraterrestrial Life
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    Chapter 54 Search for Bacterial Waste as a Possible Signature of Life on Europa
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    Chapter 55 Sulfate Volumes and the Fitness of Supcrt92 for Calculating Deep Ocean Chemistry
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    Chapter 56 The Case for Life Existing Outside of our Biosphere
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    Chapter 57 Application of Molecular Biology Techniques to Astrobiology
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    Chapter 58 Titan
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    Chapter 59 Chemical Characterization of Aerosols in Simulated Planetary Atmospheres
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    Chapter 60 Observation, Modeling and Experimental Simulation: Understanding Titan’S Atmospheric Chemistry Using These three Tools
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    Chapter 61 Exobiology of Titan
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    Chapter 62 Seti-Italia
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    Chapter 63 Seti on the Moon
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    Chapter 64 Proposing a United Nations Secretary General SETI International Advisory Board
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    Chapter 65 Some Engineering Considerations on the Controversial Issue Of Humanoids
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    Chapter 66 The New Universe, Destiny of Life, and The Cultural Implications
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    Chapter 67 Evolution of Intelligent Behavior
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    Chapter 68 Evolution of Language as Innate Mental Faculty
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    Chapter 69 How Advanced is Et?
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    Chapter 70 Chance or Design in the Origin of Living Beings
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    Chapter 71 Astrobiology and Biocentrism
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    Chapter 72 Analysis of the Works of the German Naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) on the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 73 A Reexamination of Alfonso Herrera’s Sulfocyanic Theory on the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 74 Determinism and the Proteinoid Theory
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    Chapter 75 Glimpses of Trieste Conferences on Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life
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Title
Life in the Universe
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1003-0
ISBNs
978-1-4020-3093-2, 978-9-40-071003-0
Editors

Seckbach, Joseph, Chela-Flores, Julian, Owen, Tobias, Raulin, François

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