First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began

Автор: David Deamer
Название: First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: Английский

This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds. Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that assembled into membrane-bound packages.