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The Origin of Life and Evolutionary Biochemistry

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Editors:
  1. K. Dose

    1. Institut für Biochemie, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  2. S. W. Fox

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

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  3. G. A. Deborin

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

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  4. T. E. Pavlovskaya

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

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Chapters in Honor of “Proiskhozhdenie Zhizni” and A. I. Oparin

    1. Amino Acid Synthesis by Glow Discharge Electrolysis: A Possible Route for Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids

      • Kaoru Harada
      Pages 183-205

    2. Prefigured Ordering and Protoselection in the Origin of Life

      • Dean H. Kenyon
      Pages 207-220

    3. Life’s Beginnings — Origin or Evolution?

      • John Keosian
      Pages 221-231

    4. Chemical Evolution of Photosynthesis: Models and Hypotheses

      • A. A. Krasnovsky
      Pages 233-244

    5. Comparative Study of Plant Organism Glutamine Synthetase

      • W. L. Kretovich, Z. G. Evstigneeva
      Pages 245-262

    6. The Light-Dependent Processes in Fungi: A Possible Approach to Some Problems of Photobiological Evolution

      • M. S. Kritsky
      Pages 263-269

    7. The Role of Inorganic Polyphosphates in Chemical and Biological Evolution

      • I. S. Kulaev
      Pages 271-287

    8. Sucrose Synthetase and its Physiological Role in the Storage Tissues

      • A. L. Kursanov, O. A. Pavlinova
      Pages 289-299

    9. Amino and Fatty Acids in Carbonaceous Meteorites

      • Keith A. Kvenvolden
      Pages 301-309

    10. Isolated Microsystems in Evolution

      • James C. Lacey Jr., Dail W. Mullins Jr.
      Pages 311-319

    11. The Search for Remnants of Early Evolution in Present-Day Metabolism

      • Fritz Lipmann
      Pages 321-330

    12. Primitive Control of Cellular Metabolism

      • M. A. Mitz
      Pages 331-338

    13. On the Evolution of Macromolecules

      • Hiroshi Mizutani, Hiroyuki Okihana, Masami Hasegawa, Taka-aki Yano, Haruhiko Noda
      Pages 339-354

    14. The Coacervate-In-Coacervate Theory of the Origin of Life

      • Vladimír J. A. Novák
      Pages 355-368

    15. Sedimentary Minerals under Reducing Conditions

      • L. E. Orgel
      Pages 369-371

    16. Micelles and Solid Surfaces as Amino Acid Polymerization Propagators

      • Mella Paecht-Horowitz
      Pages 373-385

    17. Possible Ways of Identifying the Abiogenesis of Biochemically Important Compounds

      • T. E. Pavlovskaya
      Pages 387-395

    18. Evolution of Models for Evolution

      • Duane L. Rohlfing
      Pages 397-415

    19. Photosynthesis and Some Problems of Evolution of Biological Systems

      • A. B. Rubin
      Pages 417-425

    20. The Oparin Theory and Some Problems of Evolution of Bioenergetic Systems

      • B. A. Rubin
      Pages 427-433
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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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