Overview
- Describes thermodynamic inversion and how it relates to the living cell
- Examines the current direction of experiments on prebiotic materials chemistry
- Introduces and substantiates necessary conditions for the emergence of life
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Life and a Principal Way of Its Origin in the Universe
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Origin of Initial Living Systems on Early Earth
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Kamchatka Geothermal Region as a Testing Ground for Investigation of the Origin-of-Life Process
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About this book
This book discusses the theory, general principles, and energy source conditions allowing for the emergence of life in planetary systems. The author examines the material conditions found in natural hydrothermal sites, the appropriate analogs of prebiotic environments on early Earth. He provides an overview of current laboratory experiments in prebiotic materials chemistry and substantiation of a new direction for the experiments in the origin of life field.
- Describes thermodynamic inversion and how it relates to the living cell;
- Examines the current direction of experiments on prebiotic materials chemistry;
- Introduces and substantiates necessary conditions for the emergenceof life.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermodynamic Inversion
Book Subtitle: Origin of Living Systems
Authors: Vladimir N. Kompanichenko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53512-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53510-4Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85170-9Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53512-8Published: 02 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Organic Chemistry, Energy Systems, Astrobiology, Biomaterials, Biochemistry, general