Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Preface
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   Chapter 2 Fitness in the Universe: Choices and Necessities
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   Chapter 3 Galactic Clouds of Organic Molecules
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   Chapter 4 The Outer Solar System: Perspectives for Exobiology
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   Chapter 5 Catalytic Reactions in the Solar Nebula: Implications for Interstellar Molecules and Organic Compounds in Meteorites
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   Chapter 6 Natural Evidence for Chemical and Early Biological Evolution
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   Chapter 7 Aspects of the Geologic History of Seawater
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   Chapter 8 Homeostatic Tendencies of the Earth’s Atmosphere
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    Chapter 9 Microfossils from the Middle Precambrian McArthur Group, Northern Territory, Australia
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    Chapter 10 The Development and Diversification of Precambrian Life
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    Chapter 11 The Atmosphere of the Primitive Earth and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids
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    Chapter 12 Biomolecules from HCN
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    Chapter 13 The Prebiotic Synthesis of Oligonucleotides
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    Chapter 14 The Possible Role of Clays in Prebiotic Peptide Synthesis
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    Chapter 15 Interactions between Amino Acids and Nucleotides in the Prebiotic Milieu
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    Chapter 16 Coacervate Systems and Origin of Life
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    Chapter 17 Transfer RNA and the Translation Apparatus in the Origin of Life
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    Chapter 18 A Hypothetic Scheme for Evolution of Probionts
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    Chapter 19 From Proteinoid Microsphere to Contemporary Cell: Formation of Internucleotide and Peptide Bonds by Proteinoid Particles
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    Chapter 20 Chemical and Catalytical Properties of Thermal Polymers of Amino Acids (Proteinoids)
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    Chapter 21 Pre-Enzymic Origin of Metabolic Redox Processes and of the Energy Storage Processes
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    Chapter 22 Experimental Attempts for the Study of the Origin of Optical Activity on Earth
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    Chapter 23 Life’s Beginnings — Origin or Evolution?
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    Chapter 24 On the Chemical Constitution of Cometary Nuclei
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    Chapter 25 Photochemical Conversions of Lower Aldehydes in Aqueous Solutions and in Fog
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    Chapter 26 Inferences from Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences: Early Molecular Evolution, Divergence of Kingdoms and Rates of Change
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    Chapter 27 On the Possible Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code
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    Chapter 28 Genetics and the Origin of the Genetic Code
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    Chapter 29 Origin of the Genetic Code: A Physical-Chemical Model of Primitive Codon Assignments
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    Chapter 30 The Iron-Sulphur Proteins: Evolution of a Ubiquitous Protein from Model Systems to Higher Organisms
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    Chapter 31 A New Hypothesis for the Evolution of Biological Electron Transport
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    Chapter 32 Pathways of Chemical Evolution of Photosynthesis
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    Chapter 33 Inorganic Types of Fermentation and Anaerobic Respirations in the Evolution of Energy-Yielding Metabolism
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    Chapter 34 Test Results on the Viking Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Experiment
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    Chapter 35 Automated Life-Detection Experiments for the Viking Mission to Mars
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    Chapter 36 Organic Contamination Problems in the Viking Molecular Analysis Experiment
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    Chapter 37 Model Systems for Life Processes on Mars
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    Chapter 38 An Automatically-Returned Martian Sample by 1985?
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    Chapter 39 Life on Jupiter?
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    Chapter 40 The Possibility of Organic Molecule Formation in the Venus Atmosphere
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    Chapter 41 Planetary Systems and Extraterrestrial Life
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    Chapter 42 The Origin of Life in a Cosmic Context