Overview
- Addresses the issue of Earth’s early surface and its relationship to the origin of life more comprehensively, and to some extent more quantitatively than has been done to date
- Provides arguments for adopting a view of the early Earth’s surface significantly different from conventional wisdom
- Expands on a model for the emergence of life proposed by Eigen and De Duve using quantitative treatment of molecular biologic components, a novel approach which underpins the likelihood that life would arise with a much higher probability than previously thought
- Combines molecular biology insights with geological reasoning of conditions and environments on the early Earth
- Examines the geologic evidence in support of the presented model
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences (BRIEFSEARTH)
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Book Title: Earth's Early Atmosphere and Oceans, and The Origin of Life
Authors: George H. Shaw
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21972-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21971-4Published: 16 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21972-1Published: 07 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5369
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5377
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 113
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Planetology, Popular Earth Science, Geoecology/Natural Processes