http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xxii, 241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
List of symbols and abbreviations -- Tracing life's origin: from amino acids to space mission ROSETTA -- Stereochemistry for the study of the origin of life -- Minority report: life's chiral molecules of opposite handedness -- When crystals deliver chirality to life -- When parity falls: the weak nuclear interaction -- Chiral fields: light, magnetism, and chirality -- Key to the prebiotic origin of amino acids -- A new record for chiral molecules in meteorites -- The new space race: chiral molecules on comets and on Mars -- Accelerating the carousel: amplification mechanisms -- Appendix.
Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics