Deamer, David W.

Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?

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ISBN 13:: 9780190646387
author:: Deamer, David W.
format:: Hardback
publisher:: Oxford University Press Inc
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2019
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 24 x 16.4 x 1.9 centimetres (0.4
Genre:: Science, Chemistry, General
Condition:: New
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Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets? David Deamer explores the cutting-edge questions in research on the origin of life, examining how non-living organic compounds assembled into primitive cellular life. He considers the source of these compounds, the energy that produced the first nucleic acids, and whether life began in the ocean or on land masses. Deamer discusses his studies of organic compounds likely to have been present in the prebiotic environment and the volcanic conditions that can drive chemical evolution toward the origin of life. The book provides an overview of early Earth's conditions four billion years ago and proposes fresh water hot springs as a plausible alternative to salty seawater for life to begin. The author does not propose how life began, instead focusing on understanding how life can begin on any habitable planet, with Earth being the only known example so far.

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