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First life [electronic resource] : discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began / David Deamer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 271 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780520948952 (electronic bk.)
  • 0520948955 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: First life.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/3 22
LOC classification:
  • QH326 .D43 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index.

A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life.

Description based on print version record.

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