Assembling life : how can life begin on earth and other habitable planets? /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The early Earth : an ocean with volcanoes
- Geochemical and geophysical constraints on life's origin
- Hydrothermal conditions are conducive for the origin of life
- Sources of organic compounds required for primitive life
- Self-assembly processes are essential for life's origin
- Condensation reactions synthesize random polymers
- Bioenergetics and primitive metabolic pathways
- Testing alternative hypotheses : simulating the prebiotic environment
- The big picture : integrating chemistry, geology, and life's origin
- Falsifying the hypothesis : a critique
- Where to next? : unresolved questions
- Prospects for life on other planets.