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Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Fitness in the Universe: Choices and Necessities
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    Chapter 2 Galactic Clouds of Organic Molecules
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    Chapter 3 The Outer Solar System: Perspectives for Exobiology
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    Chapter 4 Catalytic Reactions in the Solar Nebula: Implications for Interstellar Molecules and Organic Compounds in Meteorites
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    Chapter 5 Natural Evidence for Chemical and Early Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 6 Aspects of the Geologic History of Seawater
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    Chapter 7 Homeostatic Tendencies of the Earth’s Atmosphere
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    Chapter 8 Microfossils from the Middle Precambrian McArthur Group, Northern Territory, Australia
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    Chapter 9 The Development and Diversification of Precambrian Life
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    Chapter 10 The Atmosphere of the Primitive Earth and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids
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    Chapter 11 Biomolecules from HCN
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    Chapter 12 The Prebiotic Synthesis of Oligonucleotides
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    Chapter 13 The Possible Role of Clays in Prebiotic Peptide Synthesis
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    Chapter 14 Interactions Between Amino Acids and Nucleotides in the Prebiotic Milieu
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    Chapter 15 Coacervate Systems and Origin of Life
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    Chapter 16 Transfer RNA and the Translation Apparatus in the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 17 A Hypothetic Scheme for Evolution of Probionts
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    Chapter 18 From Proteinoid Microsphere to Contemporary Cell: Formation of Internucleotide and Peptide Bonds by Proteinoid Particles
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    Chapter 19 Chemical and Catalytical Properties of Thermal Polymers of Amino Acids (Proteinoids)
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    Chapter 20 Pre-Enzymic Origin of Metabolic Redox Processes and of the Energy Storage Processes
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    Chapter 21 Experimental Attempts for the Study of the Origin of Optical Activity on Earth
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    Chapter 22 Life’s Beginnings — Origin or Evolution?
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    Chapter 23 On the Chemical Constitution of Cometary Nuclei
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    Chapter 24 Photochemical Conversions of Lower Aldehydes in Aqueous Solutions and in Fog
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    Chapter 25 Inferences from Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences: Early Molecular Evolution, Divergence of Kingdoms and Rates of Change
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    Chapter 26 On the Possible Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code
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    Chapter 27 Genetics and the Origin of the Genetic Code
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    Chapter 28 Origin of the Genetic Code: A Physical-Chemical Model of Primitive Codon Assignments
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    Chapter 29 The Iron-Sulphur Proteins: Evolution of a Ubiquitous Protein from Model Systems to Higher Organisms
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    Chapter 30 A New Hypothesis for the Evolution of Biological Electron Transport
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    Chapter 31 Pathways of Chemical Evolution of Photosynthesis
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    Chapter 32 Inorganic Types of Fermentation and Anaerobic Respirations in the Evolution of Energy-Yielding Metabolism
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    Chapter 33 Test Results on the Viking Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Experiment
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    Chapter 34 Automated Life-Detection Experiments for the Viking Mission to Mars
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    Chapter 35 Organic Contamination Problems in the Viking Molecular Analysis Experiment
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    Chapter 36 Model Systems for Life Processes on Mars
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    Chapter 37 An Automatically-Returned Martian Sample by 1985?
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    Chapter 38 Life on Jupiter?
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    Chapter 39 The Possibility of Organic Molecule Formation in the Venus Atmosphere
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    Chapter 40 Planetary Systems and Extraterrestrial Life
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    Chapter 41 The Origin of Life in a Cosmic Context
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Title
Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, April 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-1118-6
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978-9-40-151118-6, 978-9-40-151120-9
Editors

Oró, J., Miller, S. L., Ponnamperuma, C., Young, R. S.

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