Seven Clues to the Origin of Life A Scientific Detective Story

Name: Seven Clues to the Origin of Life A Scientific Detective Story
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ISBN: 9780521398282

ISBN-10: 0521398282

ISBN-13: 9780521398282

Edition: 1990

Authors: A. G. Cairns-Smith

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This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins of life in which the important issues are addressed pertinently, economically and with a happy…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/13/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.46" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Preface


Sources of quotations



Inquest



Messages, messages



Build your own E. coli



The inner machinery



A garden path?



Look more closely at the signposts



A clue in a Chinese box



Missing pieces



The trouble with molecules



Crystals



The clay-making machine



Gene-1



Evolving by direct action



Takeover



Summing-up: the seven clues








Glossary


Index