From Stardust to First Cells
Autor Sankar Chatterjeeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031233999
ISBN-10: 3031233999
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 210 x 279 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Springer
ISBN-10: 3031233999
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 210 x 279 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Springer
Cuprins
Prologue.- Defining life.- Origin of life: a model of hierarchical complexity.- Cosmic connections.- cradle of life.- Bioenergetics and primitive metabolism.- Chemical stage.- Lipid membrane: encapsulating life.- The RNA world—reality or dogma? The age of information.- A code script for life.- The advent of proteins.- The virus world in deep time.- DNA takes over.- First life.- Life beyond earth.- Epilogue.
Notă biografică
Sankar Chatterjee is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Geosciences and Curator of Paleontology at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. from Calcutta University and was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and George Washington University before he moved to Texas Tech. His current research focuses on astrobiology and the origin of life. He is an elected fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He led several expeditions to Antarctica, China, India, and the American Southwest in search of dinosaurs and early birds. His previous book, The Rise of Birds (Johns Hopkins University Press), has been translated into many languages.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing together seemingly disparate bits of evidence, Dr. Sankar Chatterjee combines the most recent discoveries in cosmology, geology, chemistry, information systems, and biology, weaving a vast tapestry from the threads of current research. Dr. Chatterjee convincingly argues that the odyssey of life first began when the fundamental building blocks were brought to Earth by meteorites. These cosmic compounds concentrated and simmered like a soup in hydrothermal crater-caldrons. Through a system of subterranean vent networks, a biosynthetic-rich variety of organic compounds mixed and matched into a recipe of rich biomolecules guided by prebiotic information systems. Through symbiosis, these complex biopolymers gradually assemble into membrane-bound protocells. At each stage of this evolutionary progression, through natural selection, they refined with increasing stability and complexity, ultimately leading to the emergence of the first cells about four billion years ago. In this book, Dr. Chatterjee tells this story in rigorous detail in language that is both accessible and engaging.
Caracteristici
Unites and interweaves the various pieces of evidence from astronomy, geology, chemistry, informatics Argues that life most likely arose in five interconnected hierarchical stages of increasing complexity Contends that the most likely cradle for biosynthesis was a hydrothermal crater lake, where life began to brew