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The Spark Of Life - Christopher Wills, Jeffrey Bada

The Spark Of Life

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2001
Perseus Books (Verlag)
978-0-7382-0493-2 (ISBN)
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Untangling a century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories of the source of life - from Martian meteors to hydrothermal vents - and then present their own elegant scenario: life arose not in the subterranean depths, as many believe, but on Earth's tumultuous surface.
"A highly readable survey of the historical prelude to the study of the origins of life, as well as selected areas of current research, including the search for extraterrestrial life."-NatureWhere did we come from? Did life arise on earth or on some other planet? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Untangling a century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories of the source of life-from Martian meteors to hydrothermal vents-and then present their own elegant scenario: Life arose not in the subterranean depths, as many believe, but on Earth's tumultuous surface, where a primitive form of natural selection spawned the first genetic material, perhaps in the form of a proto-virus. Knowing exactly how life began on Earth will not only teach us more about ourselves, it will bring us closer to finding life elsewhere.

Christopher Wills is Professor of Biology at the University of California at San Diego. His books include Yellow Fever, Black Goddess and Children of Prometheus. Jeffrey Bada is Professor of Marine Chemistry and Director of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Exobiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.3.2001
Verlagsort Boulder
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10 0-7382-0493-5 / 0738204935
ISBN-13 978-0-7382-0493-2 / 9780738204932
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