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The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth de Eric Smith

The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth

Autor Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2025
Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. For researchers, professionals entering the field or specialists looking for a coherent overview, this text brings together geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and physics, and includes an extensive bibliography.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009633772
ISBN-10: 1009633775
Pagini: 701
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The planetary scope of biogenesis; 2. Life on Earth today; 3. The geochemical context for the biosphere; 4. The architecture of metabolism; 5. Higher-level structures; 6. Emergence of the biosphere; 7. The phase transition paradigm for emergence; 8. The nature of the living state; Epilogue. References; Index.

Recenzii

'… the most significant book on the origin of life hitherto written.' Walter Fontana, Harvard University, Massachusetts
'This is a truly unusual work of scholarship, which offers both novel perspectives on a huge range of disciplines and a model of scientific synthesis. This is a remarkable, and remarkably impressive, book.' Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University
'… an exceptionally important, highly original, unique scientific contribution …' Elbert Branscomb, University of Illinois
'The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth reads more like a well-executed textbook, one that covers much of what you need to know to jump in and start researching the origins of life. … For physicists wishing to dive headfirst into the origin-of-life field, this book is a great place to start … the book is not merely a compendium of existing knowledge; it offers genuinely new perspectives. [The authors] turn scientists' conventional origin stories on their heads. Rather than focus strictly on the chemical origin of life, they regard life as a planetary process … they introduce the idea of life as a 'fourth geosphere' that complements the other three: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. In so doing, they make the problem of the origin of life one that may be tractable for physicists, and they lay out a possible framework for how to do it.' Sara I. Walker, Physics Today
'For those interested in an easy-to-follow introduction to this fascinating topic …' Graham Godfrey, The Biologist