Genesis - In the Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

PRELIMINARY SECTION Pathways to "Genesis - In the Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution"; Joseph Seckbach Introduction to Genesis - In The Beginning; David W. Deamer Foreword; Steven A. Benner Origins of Life - Keeping Options Open; Alan W. Schwartz PART 1. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids; H. James Cleaves II, Jeffrey Bada Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks; Chrisantha Fernando, Vera Vasas Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats; Enzo Gallori, Sergio Branciamore Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication: A Primer for Experimentalists; Kelly Harris, Irene A. Chen Life without Carbon; Rob Hengeveld [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life; Kenji Ikehara Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth; Kunio Kawamura The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life; Osmel Martin, Rolando Cardenas, Liuba Penate, J.E. Horvath Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach; F.G Mosqueira, A. Negron-Mendoza, S. Ramos-Bernal, C. Polanco Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids; M Pawlikowski Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of ; Michael Simakov The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life; David Summers PART 2. THE ROLE OF PHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICS IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE Moving 'Far from Equilibrium' in a Prebiotic Environment: The Role of Maxwell's Demon in Life Origin; David L. Abel Life from Interface; Katsuhiko Ariga,; Gary J. Richards, and Jonathan P.Hill Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life; Tom Barbalet Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: a 21st Century Grand Challenge; Bruce Damer, Peter Newman, Ryan Norkus, Richard Gordon and Tom Barbalet Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life; Norikazu Ichihashi, Tomoaki Matsuura, Hiroshi Kita; Takeshi Sunami, Hiroaki Suzuki, and Tetsuya Yomo Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process; Vladimir Kompanichenko Life Explained by Heat Engines; Anthonie W.J. Muller Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes; Albert Rimola, Mariona Sodupe and Piero Ugliengo The Cometary Hydrosphere; Robert B.Sheldon In Situ, High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life; David Wacey PART 3. THE ROLE OF SYMMETRY, INFORMATION AND ORDER IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE Disorder to Order, Non-Life to Life. In the Beginning There Was a Mistake; Ernesto Di Mauro, Keith A. Dunker and Eward N. Trifonov The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life; B. Roy Frieden and Robert A. Gatenby The Origin of First Peptides on Earth - From Amino Acids to Homochiral Biomolecules; Thomas Jakschitz, Daniel Fitz and Bernd Michael Rode Chemical Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality; Martin Klußmann Absolute Asymmetric Reactions and the Origin of Biological Chirality; Gabor Lente Energy-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Chiral Order (Lessons from Dynamic Systems Modelling); Radu Pop and Vily M. Cimpoiasu PART 4. PANSPERMIA Recurrent Dreams of Life in Meteorites; Richard Gordon and Jesse McNichol Are We from Outer Space? A Critical Review of the Panspermia Hypothesis; Jesse McNichol and Richard Gordon Origin of Life and Panspermia; Chandra Wickramasinghe PART 5. THE FIRST STEPS OF CELLULAR EVOLUTION The Dimeric Proto-Ribosome Within the Modern Ribosome; Ilana Agmon Oceanic Arginine Translator: The Origin of Life and Early Evolution of the Genetic Code; Robert W.Griffith Tidal Cycling and the Origin of the Genetic Code: Implications for Cellular Life; Richard Lathe Heterotrophic Model Protocells; Sheref S. Mansy and Cristina Del Bianco A Symbiogenic Way in the Origin of Life; Luisa Pereira, Telma Rodrigues and Francisco Carrapico Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Lif