Emergence Life on Earth

Autorentext
Fry, Iris

Klappentext
This new series presents innovative titles pertaining to human origins, evolution, and behavior from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Subject areas include but are not limited to biological and physical anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology. The series volumes will be of interest primarily to students and scholars in these fields.


Zusammenfassung
How did life emerge on Earth? Is there life on other worlds? These questions are now the subject of legitimate scientific research. This book presents a unique perspective - a combined historical, scientific, and philosophical anaylsis, which does justice to the complex nature of the subject.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "From the Dust of the Ground"
2. Spontaneous Generation--Ups and Downs
3. The Revival of the Belief in Spontaneous Generation
4. Louis Pasteur--the Deathblow to Spontaneous Generation
5. Between Pasteur and Darwin--A Dead End
6. The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis
7. An Era of Optimism
8. Evolution in a Test Tube
9. Manfred Eigen's Model
10. Crisis--Real or Fictitious?
11. The RNA World--A Case for Renewed Optimism?
12. And Yet, Metabolism
13. The Emergence of Life--Neither By Chance Nor By Design
14. "Life on Mars? So What?"
Bibliography
Index

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