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Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life

Proceedings of the Fourth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy, 4–8 September 1995

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Julian Chela-Flores

    1. 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. Université Paris XII, LISA, Creteil, France

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Leading researchers in the area of the origin and evolution of life in the universe contributed to Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life. This volume provides a review of this interdisciplinary field. In 35 chapters many aspects of the origin of life are discussed by 90 authors, with particular emphasis on the early paleontological record: physical, chemical, biological, and informational aspects of life's origin, instrumentation in exobiology and system exploration; the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial intelligent radio signals.
This book contains the proceedings of the Fourth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution that took place in September 1995, in which scientists from a wide geographical distribution joined in a Memorial to Cyril Ponnamperuma, who was a pioneer in the field of chemical evolution, the origin of life, and exobiology, and also initiated the Trieste Conferences on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life. This fourth Conference was therefore dedicated to his memory.
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 of life.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. General Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Cosmic Evolution, Life and Man

      • J. Oro
      Pages 3-19

    3. Experimental Retracement of Terrestrial Origin of an Excitable Cell: Was it Predictable?

      • Sidney W. Fox, Peter R. Bahn, Aristotel Pappelis, Bi Yu
      Pages 21-32

  4. From Geophysics to Prebiotic Chemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Age of the Isua Supracrustal Sequence of West Greenland: A plausible repository for early life

      • Stephen Moorbath, Martin J. Whitehouse
      Pages 87-95

    3. Clays as Natural Catalyst in Prebiotic Processes

      • A. Negron-Mendoza, G. Albarran, S. Ramos-Bernal
      Pages 97-106

    4. Role of Transient and Stable Molecules in Chemical Evolution

      • Mohindra S. Chadha
      Pages 107-122

    5. Lightning Associated to Archean Volcanic Ash-Gas Clouds

      • Rafael Navarro-González, Vladimir A. Basiuk, Marcos Rosenbaum
      Pages 123-142

  5. Physiochemical Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Evolutionary, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Aspects on the Bioenergetics of Inorganic Pyrophosphate (PPi) and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

      • Herrick Baltscheffsky, Margareta Baltscheffsky
      Pages 145-150

    3. Mineral Metal Sulphur Clusters as a Testbed for Studies of Evolutionary Continuity

      • M. S. Kritsky, M. G. Vladimirov, V. A. Otroshchenko, V. A. Bogdanovskaya
      Pages 151-156

    4. Thermal Peptides as the Initial Genetic System

      • Aristotel Pappelis, Sidney W. Fox
      Pages 157-165

    5. Origin of Nucleic Acids

      • Benoît E. Prieur
      Pages 167-169

    6. Origin of Fatty Acids

      • Benoît E. Prieur
      Pages 171-173

  6. Biophysical Aspects: General Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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Editors and Affiliations

  • International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    Julian Chela-Flores

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

    Julian Chela-Flores

  • Université Paris XII, LISA, Creteil, France

    François Raulin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fourth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy, 4–8 September 1995

  • Editors: Julian Chela-Flores, François Raulin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1712-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4111-6Published: 31 July 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7266-3Published: 22 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1712-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 414

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Evolutionary Biology, Physical Chemistry, Complex Systems, Planetology, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

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