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The Origin of Life and Evolutionary Biochemistry

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Historical Introduction: A. I. Oparin and the Origin of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A. I. Oparin and the Origin of Life

      • S. W. Fox, G. A. Deborin, K. Dose, T. E. Pavlovskaya
      Pages 3-6
  3. Chapters in Honor of “Proiskhozhdenie Zhizni” and A. I. Oparin

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Condensation Reactions of Lysine in the Presence of Polyadenylic Acid

      • Loring K. Bjornson, Richard M. Lemmon, Melvin Calvin
      Pages 21-27
    3. The Methods of Science and the Origins of Life

      • A. G. Cairns-Smith
      Pages 53-58
    4. Phospholipid Monolayers—As a Prototype of Biological Membranes

      • G. A. Deborin, A. D. Sorokina
      Pages 59-67
    5. Amino Acids and Carbohydrates in Precambrian Rocks

      • I. A. Egorov, I. Z. Sergiyenko
      Pages 79-87
    6. The Surfaces of Coacervate Drops and the Formation of Colonies

      • T. N. Evreinova, B. L. Allakhverdov, V. I. Peshenko
      Pages 89-95
    7. Ammonia: Did it have a Role in Chemical Evolution?

      • J. P. Ferris, D. E. Nicodem
      Pages 107-117

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Biochemie, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    K. Dose

  • Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

    S. W. Fox

  • A. N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

    G. A. Deborin, T. E. Pavlovskaya

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Origin of Life and Evolutionary Biochemistry

  • Editors: K. Dose, S. W. Fox, G. A. Deborin, T. E. Pavlovskaya

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2115-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2117-0Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2115-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 476

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology

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