Overview
- Presents a step-by-step argument based on thermodynamics and facts of the Earth’s history to help the reader to find an answer to the fundamental question: Why did life appear on the Earth?
- Employs “the Darwinian evolution of molecules” model to facilitate a knowledge of when, where, and how life appeared on the Earth
- Enhances the reader’s understanding with the generous use of illustrations, including a phylogenetic tree illustrating “the Darwinian evolution of molecules” model
Part of the book series: Advances in Geological Science (AGS)
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Book Title: Darwinian Evolution of Molecules
Book Subtitle: Physical and Earth-Historical Perspective of the Origin of Life
Authors: Hiromoto Nakazawa
Series Title: Advances in Geological Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8724-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8723-3Published: 22 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4224-0Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8724-0Published: 09 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-3829
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3837
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 143
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original Japanese edition published by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, 2014
Topics: Biogeosciences, Astrobiology, Historical Geology, Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology