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First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
David Deamer
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Description for First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 22 line illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 564. Discovering the Connections Between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began. 286 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: RNK. Dimension: 249 x 170 x 18. Weight: 572.
This 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 ... Read more
This 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520274457
SKU
V9780520274457
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About David Deamer
David Deamer is Research Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written and edited many books, including The Origins of Life (with Jack Szostak).
Reviews for First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
"An authoritative voice weighs in on a sprawling debate that's been raging in the scientific community for many decades, and lays out a succinct and persuasive hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth." The Scientist "Engaging... [Deamer] gives us an enriched sense of how the universe works."
Elof Axel Carlson The Quarterly Review Of Bio "Insightfully written" Times ... Read more
Elof Axel Carlson The Quarterly Review Of Bio "Insightfully written" Times ... Read more