From Stardust to First Cells

The Origin and Evolution of Early Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Sankar Chatterjee

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-21
Mått210 x 279 x 22 mm
Vikt962 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031233968

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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.

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.