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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Questions that Guide the Content and Logic of Chapters
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Early Earth: An Ocean with Volcanoes
- 2 Geochemical and Geophysical Constraints on Life’s Origin
- 3 Hydrothermal Conditions are Conducive for the Origin of Life
- 4 Sources of Organic Compounds Required for Primitive Life
- 5 Self-Assembly Processes Were Essential for Life’s Origin
- 6 Condensation Reactions Synthesize Random Polymers
- 7 Bioenergetics and Primitive Metabolic Pathways
- 8 Testing Alternative Hypotheses
- 9 Cycles, Compartments, and Polymerization
- 10 Integrating Chemistry, Geology, and Life’s Origin Coauthored with Bruce Damer
- 11 Where to Next? Unsolved Questions
- 12 Prospects for Life on Other Planets
- Appendix
- Index
Index
Index
- Source:
- Assembling Life
- Author(s):
David W. Deamer
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Questions that Guide the Content and Logic of Chapters
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Early Earth: An Ocean with Volcanoes
- 2 Geochemical and Geophysical Constraints on Life’s Origin
- 3 Hydrothermal Conditions are Conducive for the Origin of Life
- 4 Sources of Organic Compounds Required for Primitive Life
- 5 Self-Assembly Processes Were Essential for Life’s Origin
- 6 Condensation Reactions Synthesize Random Polymers
- 7 Bioenergetics and Primitive Metabolic Pathways
- 8 Testing Alternative Hypotheses
- 9 Cycles, Compartments, and Polymerization
- 10 Integrating Chemistry, Geology, and Life’s Origin Coauthored with Bruce Damer
- 11 Where to Next? Unsolved Questions
- 12 Prospects for Life on Other Planets
- Appendix
- Index
