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First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Possible Primordial Genetic Polymer
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    Chapter 2 Physics and Life
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    Chapter 3 Solution to Darwins Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life
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    Chapter 4 Europa: Prospects for an Ocean and Life
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    Chapter 5 Sidney Walter Fox
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    Chapter 6 Theories on Origins of Life between 1860 and 1900
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    Chapter 7 Reminiscences-Pont-A-Mousson-1970 to Trieste-2000
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    Chapter 8 Materials for “First Steps” in Evolution
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    Chapter 9 Origin and Persistence of Genetic Material in Prebiotic Habitats. The Possible Role of Nucleic Acid-Clay Complexes
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    Chapter 10 Chemical Evolution Studies in Organic Compounds Adsorbed in Clays
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    Chapter 11 From Inanimate Macromolecules to the Animate Photocell
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    Chapter 12 HPLC Evidence of Nonrandomness in Thermal Proteins
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    Chapter 13 IR Spectra of Protein, Thermal Protein, Thermal Glycoprotein
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    Chapter 14 Prebiotic Selection Induced by Periodic Starlight
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    Chapter 15 A model system for studying the role of phosphoryl group in energy transfer system
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    Chapter 16 Demonstration of the PVED in Phase Transition of D-/L-Alanine & Valine
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    Chapter 17 Two Punctuation Systems in the Genetic Code
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    Chapter 18 Studies on Metal Ferrocyanides as Prebiotic Catalyst
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    Chapter 19 Stability of Ribonucleic Acid in Protective Environments of Alkanes ≥ n-C18 — Results from Experiments in Laboratory
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    Chapter 20 Is Boric Acid the Missing Link in Prebiotic Chemistry?
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    Chapter 21 Phosphoramide-Bonded Polynucleobasephosphates as Riboseless Precursors of RNA ?
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    Chapter 22 Cometary Molecules & Life’s Origin
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    Chapter 23 When and How Quickly did Life Emerge on Earth?
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    Chapter 24 Cosmochemistry in the Early Universe
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    Chapter 25 Absorption Against the Cosmic 2.7 K Background
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    Chapter 26 Can Bio-Molecules be Formed in Collapsing Interstellar Clouds?
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    Chapter 27 Interstellar Molecules: An Exotic Chemistry
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    Chapter 28 Protoplanetary Disks, Solar System Minor Bodies and Origin of Life
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    Chapter 29 Electric Discharge in Carbonaceous Meteorites?
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    Chapter 30 Terrene Meteorites on The Moon
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    Chapter 31 Two Possible Steps of the Chemical Evolution on Surface of Small Bodies in the Solar System
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    Chapter 32 Tetra- and Nonapeptidyl Motifs in the Origin and Evolution of Photosynthetic Bioenergy Conversion
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    Chapter 33 Geochemical Habitats in Hydrothermal Systems
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    Chapter 34 Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: An Example of Extreme Environment on Earth
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    Chapter 35 Catalytic Capability of Oligopeptides in the Interface Chemistry in Hydrothermal Environments
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    Chapter 36 Volcanic Lightning and the Availability of Reactive Nitrogen and Phosphorus for Chemical Evolution
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    Chapter 37 Planetary Habitable Zones: The Spatial Distribution of Life on Planetary Bodies
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    Chapter 38 Geological and Geochronological Constraints for the Age of the Oldest Putative Biomarkers in the Early Archaean Rocks of West Greenland
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    Chapter 39 The Cenancestor and Its Contemporary Biological Relics: The Case of Nucleic Acid Polymerases
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    Chapter 40 Likelihood of Transport of Life between the Planets of Our Solar System
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    Chapter 41 The Nucleotide and Nucleotide-Like Coenzymes in Primitive Metabolism, Photobiology and Evolution
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    Chapter 42 From Extremophiles to Astrobiology
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    Chapter 43 Adaptative Response of a Fungus Species to Hydrocarbon Environments — Results from Experiments in Laboratory
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    Chapter 44 Origins of Life in the Universe and Earliest Prokaryotic Microorganisms on Earth
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    Chapter 45 Persistence of Living Planktonic Foraminifera (Neogloboquadrina pachyderma) in Antarctic Sea-Ice Inferred from a Study of a Sediment Core (Ross Sea Continental Margin)
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    Chapter 46 Testing Evolutionary Convergence:
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    Chapter 47 The Search for a Second Genesis of Life in Our Solar System
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    Chapter 48 Ancient Life on Mars and Earth
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    Chapter 49 Search for Life on Mars : The Mars Express Beagle-2 Lander
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    Chapter 50 Search for Enantiomeric Excess in Extraterrestrial Samples. Interest for Mars Sample Return
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    Chapter 51 Changes on the Surface of Mars Resulting from Inner Factors and Impactors
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    Chapter 52 Spatial and Temporary Patterns of Some Climate Parameters Around the Timberline of Pico De Orizaba
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    Chapter 53 The Satellites of Saturn
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    Chapter 54 Titan : Exobiology and the Cassini-Huygens Mission
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    Chapter 55 Experimental and Theoretical Photochemical Studies of Polyynes: Application to Titans Atmosphere
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    Chapter 56 Experimental Simulation of Titan’s Atmosphere by Cold Plasmas
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    Chapter 57 Ways to Detect Life on New Planets
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    Chapter 58 Searching for Water in Exoplanets
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    Chapter 59 The Saha Crater Radioastronomic and SETI Observatory
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    Chapter 60 Natural Intelligence and Cellular Complexity
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    Chapter 61 Extraterrestrial Life and Communication Perspectives
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    Chapter 62 On the Last Terms of Drake Equation: The Problem of Energy Sources
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    Chapter 63 Origins and Creation
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    Chapter 64 Life in the Universe: Philosophical and Theological Issues
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    Chapter 65 Implications of Possible Biological Evolution Outside Habitable Zones in Solar Systems
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    Chapter 66 Cosmopark — A Natural Astronomical Observatory
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    Chapter 67 Spanish Photographic Meteor Network: An interdisciplinary crosslink
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    Chapter 68 New Paradigms for SETI
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    Chapter 69 The Plurality of Worlds
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Title
First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2001
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-1017-7
ISBNs
978-9-40-103883-6, 978-9-40-101017-7
Editors

JuliÁn Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen, François Raulin

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Unknown 2 67%