Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of books on the origin of life
- 1 Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on Earth
- 2 Approaches to the definitions of life
- 3 Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this … and not that?
- 4 The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences
- 5 Self-organization
- 6 The notion of emergence
- 7 Self-replication and self-reproduction
- 8 Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life
- 9 Compartments
- 10 Reactivity and transformation of vesicles
- 11 Approaches to the minimal cell
- Outlook
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of books on the origin of life
- 1 Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on Earth
- 2 Approaches to the definitions of life
- 3 Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this … and not that?
- 4 The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences
- 5 Self-organization
- 6 The notion of emergence
- 7 Self-replication and self-reproduction
- 8 Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life
- 9 Compartments
- 10 Reactivity and transformation of vesicles
- 11 Approaches to the minimal cell
- Outlook
- References
- Index
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- The Emergence of LifeFrom Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology, pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006