Author : Julian Chela-Flores
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402000775
Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy, 18-22 September 2000
Author : Julian Chela-Flores
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 940101017X
Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy, 18-22 September 2000
Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0141941839
The origins of life remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Growing evidence suggests that the first organisms lived deep underground, in environments previously thought to be uninhabitable, and that microbes carried inside rocks have travelled between Earth and Mars. But the question remains: how can life spring into being from non-living chemicals? THE FIFTH MIRACLE reveals the remarkable new theories and discoveries that seem set to transform our understanding of life's role in the unfolding drama of the cosmos.
Author : National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309064064
This edition of Science and Creationism summarizes key aspects of several of the most important lines of evidence supporting evolution. It describes some of the positions taken by advocates of creation science and presents an analysis of these claims. This document lays out for a broader audience the case against presenting religious concepts in science classes. The document covers the origin of the universe, Earth, and life; evidence supporting biological evolution; and human evolution. (Contains 31 references.) (CCM)
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309042461
The field of planetary biology and chemical evolution draws together experts in astronomy, paleobiology, biochemistry, and space science who work together to understand the evolution of living systems. This field has made exciting discoveries that shed light on how organic compounds came together to form self-replicating molecules-the origin of life. This volume updates that progress and offers recommendations on research programs-including an ambitious effort centered on Mars-to advance the field over the next 10 to 15 years. The book presents a wide range of data and research results on these and other issues: The biogenic elements and their interaction in the interstellar clouds and in solar nebulae. Early planetary environments and the conditions that lead to the origin of life. The evolution of cellular and multicellular life. The search for life outside the solar system. This volume will become required reading for anyone involved in the search for life's beginnings-including exobiologists, geoscientists, planetary scientists, and U.S. space and science policymakers.
Author : Nick Lane
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Cells
ISBN : 9781781250372
A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.
Author : Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780486495224
This classic of biochemistry offered the first detailed exposition of the theory that living tissue was preceded upon Earth by a long and gradual evolution of nitrogen and carbon compounds. "Easily the most scholarly authority on the question...it will be a landmark for discussion for a long time to come." — New York Times.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cells
ISBN : 9780815332183
Author : Muriel Gargaud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642225527
- How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define “life”? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate students in "Origins of Life" courses and the scientifically interested public. The authors take the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning five thousand million years ago in a cloud of interstellar dust and ending five hundred million years ago, when the living world that we see today was finally formed. A chapter on exoplanets provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. The appendix closes the book with a glossary, a bibliography of further readings and a summary of the Origins of the Earth and life in fourteen boxes.
Author : J. William Schopf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780520233911
