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Origins of life / Geoffrey Zubay, Professor of Prebiotic Chemistry Fairchild Center for the Biological Sciences Columbia University New York, NY 10027.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zubay, Geoffrey L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life--Origin.
- Life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (585 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego, [California] : Academic Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos, Second Edition, suggests answers to the age-old questions of how life arose in the universe and how it might arise elsewhere. This thorough revision of a very successful text describes key events in the evolution of living systems, starting with the creation of an environment suitable for the origins of life. Whereas one may never be able to reconstruct the precise pathway that led to the origin of life on earth, one can certainly make some plausible reconstructions of it. Such discussions have greatly expanded our understanding of the pri
- Contents:
- Part I. Cration of an environment suitable for the origin of life
- Part II. Logic of living systems
- Part III. Biochemical and prebiotic pathways : a comparison
- Part IV. Evolution of living systems.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-01227-0
- 9786611012274
- 1-4294-8320-2
- 0-08-049761-6
- OCLC:
- 437182182
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