Emergence of Life on Earth A Historical and Scientific Overview

Name: Emergence of Life on Earth A Historical and Scientific Overview
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ISBN: 9780813527406

ISBN-10: 0813527406

ISBN-13: 9780813527406

Edition: 2000

Authors: Iris Fry

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: the Origin of Life--A Subject with a Past and a Future



"From the Dust of the Ground"



Spontaneous Generation--Ups and Downs



The Revival of the Belief in Spontaneous Generation



Louis Pasteur--The Deathblow to Spontaneous Generation



Between Pasteur and Darwin--A Dead End



The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis



An Era of Optimism



Evolution in a Test Tube



Manfred Eigen's Model



Crisis--Real or Fictitious?



The Rna World--A Case for Renewed Optimism?



And Yet, Metabolism



The Emergence of Life--Neither by Chance Nor by Design



"Life on Mars? So What?"


Bibliography


Index