Seckbach, Joseph
Genesis - In The Beginning
1. The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids
H. James Cleaves, Jeffrey L. Bada
2. Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks
Chrisantha Fernando, Vera Vasas
3. Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats
Enzo Gallori, Sergio Branciamore
4. Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication of Informational Molecules
Kelley Harris, Irene A. Chen
5. Life Without Carbon
Rob Hengeveld
6. [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life
Kenji Ikehara
7. Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth
Kunio Kawamura
8. The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life
Osmel Martín, Liuba Peñate, Rolando Cárdenas, J. E. Horvath
9. Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach
F. G. Mosqueira, Alicia Negrón-Mendoza, Sergio Ramos-Bernal, Carlos Polanco-Gonzalez
10. Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids
Maciej Pawlikowski
11. The Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of Life
Michael Simakov
12. The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life
David P. Summers
13. Moving “Far from Equilibrium” in a Prebiotic Environment: The Role of Maxwell’s Demon in Life Origin
David L. Abel
14. Life from Interface
Katsuhiko Ariga, Gary J. Richards, Jonathan P. Hill
15. Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life
Tom Barbalet
16. Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: A Twenty-First Century Grand Challenge
Bruce Damer, Peter Newman, Ryan Norkus, John Graham, Richard Gordon, Tom Barbalet
17. Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life
Norikazu Ichihashi, Tomoaki Matsuura, Hiroshi Kita, Takeshi Sunami, Hiroaki Suzuki, Tetsuya Yomo
18. Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process
Vladimir Kompanichenko
19. Life Explained by Heat Engines
Anthonie W. J. Muller
20. Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes
Albert Rimola, Mariona Sodupe, Piero Ugliengo
21. Comets, Information, and the Origin of Life
Robert B. Sheldon
22. In Situ High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life
David Wacey
23. Disorder to Order, Nonlife to Life: In the Beginning There Was a Mistake
Ernesto Mauro, A. Keith Dunker, Edward N. Trifonov
24. The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life
B. Roy Frieden, Robert A. Gatenby
25. The Origin of First Peptides on Earth: From Amino Acids to Homochiral Biomolecules
Thomas Jakschitz, Daniel Fitz, Bernd Michael Rode
26. Chemical Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality
Martin Klussmann
27. Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis and the Origin of Biological Chirality
Gábor Lente
28. Energy-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Chiral Order (Lessons from Dynamic Systems Modeling)
Radu Popa, Vily Marius Cimpoiasu
29. Recurrent Dreams of Life in Meteorites
Richard Gordon, Jesse C. Mcnichol
30. Are We from Outer Space?
Jesse C. Mcnichol, Richard Gordon
31. Origin of Life and Panspermia
Chandra Wickramasinghe
32. The Dimeric Proto-Ribosome Within the Modern Ribosome
Ilana Agmon
33. Oceanic Arginine Translator: The Origin of Life and Early Evolution of the Genetic Code
Robert W. Griffith
34. Tidal Cycling and the Origin of the Genetic Code: Implications for Cellular Life
Richard Lathe
35. Heterotrophic Model Protocells
Cristina Bianco, Sheref S. Mansy
36. A Symbiogenic Way in the Origin of Life
Luísa Pereira, Telma Rodrigues, Francisco Carrapiço
37. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life
Jan Sapp
38. On the Vesicular Origin of the Cell Cycle
Saša Svetina
39. Hypothesized Microenvironments for the Origin of Microbial Life on Earth
Jack T. Trevors, Asim K. Bej, Jan Dirk Elsas
40. What Can Life on Earth Tell Us About Life in the Universe?
Charles H. Lineweaver, Aditya Chopra
41. Potential for Life in the Saturn System
François Raulin
42. Energy Sources for, and Detectability of, Life on Extrasolar Planets
John A. Raven, Charles S. Cockell, Lisa Kaltenegger
43. Habitable Environments by Extremophiles on Earth, the Solar System, and Elsewhere
Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores
44. Cultural Implications of the Search and Eventual Discovery of a Second Genesis
Roberto Aretxaga-Burgos, Julian Chela-Flores
45. The Concept of Chemical Evolution Before Oparin
Florence Raulin-Cerceau
46. A History of Origin of Life Ideas from Darwin to NASA
James E. Strick
Keywords: Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Cell Biology, Geochemistry, Earth System Sciences, Science, general
- Author(s)
- Seckbach, Joseph
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2012
- Series
- Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
- Page amount
- 39 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400729414