How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life: Vienna Series in Theoretical B
Autor Jan Spitzeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2021
Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins research by exploiting a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces and covalent bond formation--a physicochemical approach propounded originally by Linus Pauling and Max Delbrück. Spitzer develops the Pauling-Delbrück premise as a physicochemical jigsaw puzzle that identifies key stages in life's emergence, from the formation of first oceans, tidal sediments, and proto-biofilms to progenotes, proto-cells and the first cellular organisms.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780262045575
ISBN-10: 0262045575
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 21 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 236 x 159 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd
Seria Vienna Series in Theoretical B
ISBN-10: 0262045575
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 21 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 236 x 159 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd
Seria Vienna Series in Theoretical B
Notă biografică
Jan Spitzer
Cuprins
Series Foreword xv
A Note about This "Story" xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction: A Physicochemical Framework for Origins Research 1
1 Understanding Biological Matter 19
2 Defining the Origins Problem 31
3 Structured Bacterial Life: No Bag of Enzymes 53
4 Bacterial Non-covalent Forces and Phase Separation 65
5 Bacterial Crowding and Vectorial Organization 85
6 The Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces 103
7 The Physicochemical Roots of Darwinian Evolution 129
8 An Unexplored Experimental Paradigm of Cyclic Processes 141
Summary 157
Appendix: Screened Electrostatic Interactions in Crowded Colloidal Systems 165
Notes 171
References 191
Index 217
A Note about This "Story" xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction: A Physicochemical Framework for Origins Research 1
1 Understanding Biological Matter 19
2 Defining the Origins Problem 31
3 Structured Bacterial Life: No Bag of Enzymes 53
4 Bacterial Non-covalent Forces and Phase Separation 65
5 Bacterial Crowding and Vectorial Organization 85
6 The Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces 103
7 The Physicochemical Roots of Darwinian Evolution 129
8 An Unexplored Experimental Paradigm of Cyclic Processes 141
Summary 157
Appendix: Screened Electrostatic Interactions in Crowded Colloidal Systems 165
Notes 171
References 191
Index 217