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200 10$aFirst life$b[electronic resource] $ediscovering the connections between stars, planets, and evolution on earth /$fDavid Deamer
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (283 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. A Fireball Over Australia --$t2. Where Did Life Begin? --$t3. When Did Life Begin? --$t4. Carbon and the Building Blocks of Life --$t5. The Handedness of Life --$t6. Energy and Life's Origins --$t7. Self-Assembly and Emergence --$t8. How To Build a Cell --$t9. Achieving Complexity --$t10. Multiple Strands of Life --$t11. Catalysts: Life in the Fast Lane --$t12. Copying Life's Blueprints --$t13. How Evolution Begins --$t14. A Grand Simulation of Prebiotic Earth --$t15. Prospects for Synthetic Life --$tEpilogue --$tSources and Notes --$tIndex
330   $aThis pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds. Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that assembled into membrane-bound packages. These in turn provided an essential compartment in which more complex molecules assumed new functions required for the origin of life and the beginning of evolution. Deamer takes us from the vivid and unpromising chaos of the Earth four billion years ago up to the present and his own laboratory, where he contemplates the prospects for generating synthetic life. Engaging and accessible, First Life describes the scientific story of astrobiology while presenting a fascinating hypothesis to explain the origin of life.
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606   $aLife$xOrigin
606   $aEvolution (Biology)
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610   $aastrobiology.
610   $aastronomy.
610   $aatmosphere.
610   $abiology.
610   $abioscience.
610   $abirth of stars.
610   $acarbon compounds.
610   $acarbon.
610   $achemistry.
610   $acosmology.
610   $adeath of stars.
610   $aethics.
610   $aevolution.
610   $alife on earth.
610   $alife sciences.
610   $alife.
610   $aminerals.
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610   $aphysics.
610   $aplanet formation.
610   $aplanetary science.
610   $ascience and technology.
610   $ascience.
610   $aspark of life.
610   $astardust.
610   $astars.
610   $asynthetic life.
610   $atechnology.
610   $avolcanoes.
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