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Molecular Evolution and Protobiology

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Editors:
  1. Koichiro Matsuno

    1. Technological University of Nagaoka, Nagaoka, Japan

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  2. Klaus Dose

    1. J. Gutenberg University, Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany

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  3. Kaoru Harada

    1. University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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  4. Duane L. Rohlfing

    1. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Molecular Evolution and Protobiology: An Overview

    1. Molecular Evolution and Protobiology: An Overview

      • Klaus Dose
      Pages 1-9

  4. Prebiotic Molecules

    1. One-Carbon Compounds in the Prebiotic Syntheses of Biomolecules

      • A. S. U. Choughuley
      Pages 63-81

    2. Formation of Bioorganic Compounds in Aqueous Solution Induced by Contact Glow Discharge Electrolysis

      • Kaoru Harada
      Pages 83-101

    3. Characterization of Ionizable Groups in Thermally Prepared Polyamino Acids

      • Etsuo Kokufuta, Kaoru Harada
      Pages 103-123

    4. On Proteinoid Structure

      • Paul Melius, Vasilios Nicolaou
      Pages 125-132

    5. Pyrophosphate as a Possible Precursor of ATP

      • Fritz Lipmann
      Pages 133-135

    6. Self-Organizing Molecular Systems

      • Jerome J. Wolken
      Pages 137-162

  6. The Origin of the Genetic Code and Protein Synthesis

    1. The Genetic Anticode: The Role of Thermal Proteinoids in the Development of an Hypothesis

      • James C. Lacey Jr., Dail W. Mullins Jr.
      Pages 267-282
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In recent years, an ever-increasing amount of research has been conducted on the physico-chemical basis of the origin and evolution of life, or protobiology. Many questions are raised in this endeavor: What research methodology should be employed? What sort of dependable facts are available as a firm frame of reference upon which the physico-chemical origin of life or protolife could be examined? Is the origin due exclusively to chance events? If not, what is then responsible for the origin? What physical reality underlies the evolutionarily selective process leading to the origin? What role does variation assume and how is it generated in the course of evolution? Many research workers have pursued various avenues toward answering the stated questions. Among them, we believe Sidney W. Fox has been playing a very unique and pivotal role over the past quarter of a century, presiding over 240 man-years or more of labo­ ratory work. His laboratory syntheses of thermal proteins called proteinoids and proteinoid micro spheres have emphasized the prin­ ciple of the self-sequencing of amino acids as a key concept of protobiological synthesis. The significance of his contribution is seen in presenting the experimental evidence that the origin of life is largely due to nonrandom events. This discovery marks a new epoch in the conceptual development of studying the origin of life by focusing on the molecular processes that underlied the emergence and evolution of protobiological information.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technological University of Nagaoka, Nagaoka, Japan

    Koichiro Matsuno

  • J. Gutenberg University, Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany

    Klaus Dose

  • University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Kaoru Harada

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Duane L. Rohlfing

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Evolution and Protobiology

  • Editors: Koichiro Matsuno, Klaus Dose, Kaoru Harada, Duane L. Rohlfing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4640-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4642-5Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4640-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 474

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology

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