Origin of Life Via Archaea: Shaped Droplets to Archaea First, with a Compendium of Archaea Micrographs (Hardcover)

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xv

1 A Fresh Start on the Problem of the Origin of Life 1

2 By the Light of the Moon 33
Richard Gordon and George Mikhailovsky

3 There Were Plenty of Day/Night Cycles that Could Have Accelerated an Origin of Life on Earth, Without Requiring Panspermia 41
Richard Gordon and George Mikhailovsky

4 Emergence of Polygonal Shapes in Oil Droplets and Living Cells: The Potential Role of Tensegrity in the Origin of Life 53
Richard Gordon, Martin M. Hanczyc, Nikolai D. Denkov, Mary Ann Tiffany and Stoyan K. Smoukov

5 When We Were Triangles: Shape in the Origin of Life via Abiotic Shaped Droplets to Living, Polygonal Archaea During the Abiocene 125

6 The Fish Ladder Toy Model for a Thermodynamically at Equilibrium Origin of Life in a Lipid World in an Endoreic Lake 185
Richard Gordon, Shruti Raj Vansh Singh, Krishna Katyal, Natalie K. Gordon and David Deamer

7 How to Make a Transmembrane Domain at the Origin of Life: A Possible Origin of Proteins 229
Richard Gordon and Natalie K. Gordon

8 An Ensemble Approach to the Origin of Life 285
Bradly Alicea, Bashir Ahmad and Richard Gordon

9 A Review of the Archaea First Hypothesis for the Origin of Life 341

10 The Astrobiology of Archaea 363 References 366

11 A Survey of the Battlefield for the Origin of Life 411

12 Bibliometrics of Archaea and Where to Find Them 581

13 Resources 621

14 Compendium of Archaea 639

15 Analysis of Micrographs 1213