Biogenesis

Klappentext Biogenesis provides a detailed, critical discussion of the modern scientific study of the origin of life. It covers the entire history, including the biological, geological, and cosmological background. The author explains the rationale behind the main assumptions and experimental strategies of the study of the origin of life, and reviews its plethora of theories, models, scenarios, and controversies. Zusammenfassung Biogenesis is a detailed, critical discussion of the modern scientific study of the origin of life, its history and biological, geological, and cosmological background, the rationale of its main assumptions and experimental strategies, and its plethora of theories, model, scenarios, and controversies.

Inhalt
Preface
Prologue. On Universes, Elements, Planets, and Life
Part I. History of the Search into the Origin of Life: On the Shoulders of So Many
Ch. 1. From Myths to Logos to Stagnation
Ch. 2. Experimental Biology of the 17th Century
Ch. 3. Systematic Biology, Doubts and Uncertainties: The 18th Century
Ch. 4. Demise and Resurrection of the Spontaneous Generation School: Pasteur and Darwin
Ch. 5. The Modern Era: Spontaneous Generation at the Molecular Level
Part II. Central Features of Life as We Know it in Our Phylogenetic Tree
Ch. 6. A General Morphological-functional Characterization of the Cell
Ch. 7. General Chemical, Biochemical, and Molecular-biological Characterization
Ch. 8. General Thermodynamic Considerations
Ch. 9. Central Biochemical Molecules and Processes
Ch. 10. Biological Conservation and Continuity and the Phylogenetic Tree
Ch. 11. Biological Life: A Multitude of Points of View
Part III.
Ch. 12. Our Universe, Galaxy, and Solar System
Ch. 13. Planet Earth
Part IV. Beyond the Progenote: Rationale, Strategies, Scenarios, and Models in the Search of the Origin of Life
Ch. 14. Basic Assumptions and Strategies
Ch. 15. Clues and Speculations by Back-extrapolation from Cosmology and Geology
Ch. 16. Clues from Biology: Evolution, Conservatism, Continuity, and Their Implications
Ch. 17. Top-down Reconstruction of Processes and Early Evolutionary Stages Without Specific Geochemical Consideration
Ch. 18. Bottom-up Reconstruction Without Specific Biogeochemical Conditions
Ch. 19. Bottom-up Biogeochemical Reconstruction: Starting from Organic Scratch in the Absence of Minerals
Ch. 20. Bottom-up Biogeochemical Reconstruction: Minerals Functioning as Scaffolds, Adsorbents, Catalysts, and Information Carriers
Ch. 21. Bottom-up Biogeochemical Reconstructions: Mineral Involvement in Energy Production and Transfer
Ch. 22. Possible Sies for Molecular Evolution Scenarios and Their Rhythms
Ch. 23. Computer Modeling of Biogeochemical Scenarios
Epilogue

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