How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life : The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells
Overview
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells. Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins research by exploiting a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces and covalent bond formation--a physicochemical approach propounded originally by Linus Pauling and Max Delbr ck. Spitzer develops the Pauling-Delbr ck premise as a physicochemical jigsaw puzzle that identifies key stages in life's emergence, from the formation of first oceans, tidal sediments, and proto-biofilms to progenotes, proto-cells and the first cellular organisms.
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- ISBN-13: 9780262045575
- ISBN-10: 0262045575
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: February 2021
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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