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Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe

Proceedings of the Fifth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution: An Abdus Salam Memorial Trieste, Italy, 22–26 September 1997

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Julian Chela-Flores

    1. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
      Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

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  2. François Raulin

    1. LISA, Universités Paris VII and Parix XII, Creteil, France

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Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. General Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Abdus Salam from Fundamental Interactions to the Origin of Life

      1. Abdus Salam from Fundamental Interactions to the Origin of Life
        • Julian Chela-Flores
        Pages 5-8

    3. The Abdus Salam Lecture

      1. Cosmochemical Evolution
        • J. Oro
        Pages 11-32

    4. Opening Lecture

      1. The Theory of Common Descent
        • Richard D. Keynes
        Pages 35-49

    5. The Cyril Ponnamperuma Lecture

      1. The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
        • Frank Drake
        Pages 53-57

    6. Public Lecture

      1. Are We Alone?
        • Paul Davies
        Pages 61-68

  3. Matter in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. The Concept of Matter and Materialism in the Origin and Evolution of Life

      • George V. Coyne
      Pages 71-80

    3. Re-Appraisal of the Age of the Oldest Water-Lain Sediments, West Greenland

      • Stephen Moorbath, Balz Samuel Kamber
      Pages 81-86

    4. The Origin of Mind and Life

      • Sidney W. Fox, Aristotel Pappelis, Randall Grubbs
      Pages 87-92

  4. Energy from Inert to Living Matter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Energy for the Origin of Life

      • Herrick Baltscheffsky, Anders Schultz, Margareta Baltscheffsky
      Pages 95-102

    3. Visually Retracing the Emergence of the Evolvable Protocell

      • Randall Grubbs, Sidney W. Fox, Aristotel Pappelis, John Bozzola, Peter R. Bahn
      Pages 103-106

    4. Radicals, Ions and Molecules in Chemical Evolution

      • Mohindra S. Chadha
      Pages 107-112

    5. Some Aspects of the Irradiation of HCN and Related Compounds and Their Role in Prebiotic Chemistry

      • A. Negrón-Mendoza, S. Ramos-Bernal
      Pages 113-116

    6. The Role Played by Solid State Surfaces in Prebiotic Chemistry

      • S. Ramos-Bernal, A. Negron-Mendoza
      Pages 117-121

    7. Mutually Catalytic Amphiphiles: Simulated Chemical Evolution and Implications to Exobiology

      • Daniel Segré, Doron Lancet
      Pages 123-131

    8. Salam Phase Transition and the Causal Origin of Homochirality

      • Wenqing Wang, Fang Yi
      Pages 133-136

    9. Physical Studies of Adsorbed Bio-Organic Substances in Na-Montmorillonite

      • A. Negrón-Mendoza, S. Ramos-Bernal, Dwight Acosta, Isabel Gamboa de Buen
      Pages 137-142
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About this book

Leading researchers in the area of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe contributed to Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe. This volume provides a review of this interdisciplinary field. In 50 chapters many aspects that contribute to exobiology are reviewed by 90 authors. These include: historical perspective of biological evolution; cultural aspects of exobiology, cosmic, chemical and biological evolution, molecular biology, geochronology, biogeochemistry, biogeology, and planetology. Some of the current missions are discussed. Other subjects in the frontier of exobiology are reviewed, such as the search for planets outside the solar system, and the possible manifestation of intelligence in those new potential environments. The SETI research effort is well represented in this general overview of exobiology. This book is the proceedings of the Fifth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution that took place in September 1997. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam who suggested the initiation of the Trieste conferences on chemical evolution and the origin of life.
Audience: Graduate students and researchers in the many areas of basic, earth, and life sciences that contribute to the study of chemical evolution and the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    Julian Chela-Flores

  • Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

    Julian Chela-Flores

  • LISA, Universités Paris VII and Parix XII, Creteil, France

    François Raulin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fifth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution: An Abdus Salam Memorial Trieste, Italy, 22–26 September 1997

  • Editors: Julian Chela-Flores, François Raulin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5056-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5172-6Published: 31 August 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6124-7Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5056-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 386

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Physical Chemistry, Evolutionary Biology, Complex Systems, Planetology, Mathematical and Computational Biology

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