From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth (eBook)
IX, 370 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-45083-4 (ISBN)
This review gathers astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? The ultimate goal is to probe an even more demanding question: is life universal? This not-so linear account highlights problems, gaps, and controversies. Discussion covers the formation of the solar system; the building of a habitable planet; prebiotic chemistry, biochemistry, and the emergence of life; the early Earth environment, and much more.
Jacques Reisse: Professor of organic chemistry and physical chemistry- Université Libre de Bruxelles
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Research activity: stereochemistry, study of intermolecular interactions in liquid phase, nuclear magnetic resonance, cosmochemistry, sonochemistry
Antonio Lazcano, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.
President of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
Research activity: origin and early evolution of life
He is the author of The Origin of Life, which has become a bestseller with over 600 thousand copies sold.
He is considered the foremost promoter of evolutionary biology and the study of the origins of life in Latin America. He has been member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Nanobiology, Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiologia, and Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere.
This review emerged from several interdisciplinary meetings and schools gathering a group of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists, attempting to share their specialized knowledge around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? Their ultimate goal was to provide some kind of answer as a prerequisite to an even more demanding question: is life universal? The resulting state-of-the-art articles were written by twenty-five scientists telling a not-so linear story, but on the contrary, highlighting problems, gaps, and controversies. Needless to say, this approach yielded no definitive answers to both questions. However, by adopting a chronological approach to the question of the emergence of life on Earth, the only place where we know for sure that life exists; it was possible to break down this question into several sub-topics that can be addressed by the different disciplines.The main chapters of this review present the formation and evolution of the solar system (3); the building of a habitable planet (4); prebiotic chemistry, biochemistry, and the emergence of life (5); the environmental context of the early Earth (6); and the ancient fossil record and early evolution (7). The concluding chapter (9) provides the highlights of the review and presents the different points of view about the universality of life. Two pedagogical chapters are included; one on chronometers (2), another in the form of a "e;frieze"e; (8) which summarizes in graphical form the present state of knowledge about the chronology of the emergence of life on Earth, before the Cambrian explosion.
Jacques Reisse: Professor of organic chemistry and physical chemistry- Université Libre de Bruxelles Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium Research activity: stereochemistry, study of intermolecular interactions in liquid phase, nuclear magnetic resonance, cosmochemistry, sonochemistry Antonio Lazcano, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. President of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life Research activity: origin and early evolution of life He is the author of The Origin of Life, which has become a bestseller with over 600 thousand copies sold. He is considered the foremost promoter of evolutionary biology and the study of the origins of life in Latin America. He has been member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Nanobiology, Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiologia, and Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere.
Table of Contents 5
1. From the Arrow of Time to the Arrow of Life 9
2. Dating Methods and Corresponding Chronometers in Astrobiology 18
3. Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years 46
4. Building of a Habitable Planet 103
5. Prebiotic Chemistry – Biochemistry – Emergence of Life (4.4–2 Ga) 158
6. Environmental Context 209
7. Ancient Fossil Record and Early Evolution (ca. 3.8 to 0.5 Ga) 250
8. A Synthetic Interdisciplinary ‘‘Chronological Frieze’’: an Attempt 294
9. Life On Earth... And Elsewhere? 301
Authors 315
GLOSSARY 320
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.7.2007 |
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Zusatzinfo | VIII, 370 p. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Astrobiology • biochemistry • Biology • Chemistry • Chronological approach • Emergence of life • Environment • Evolution • Planet • Pluridisciplinarity • Solar • Solar System |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-45083-1 / 0387450831 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-45083-4 / 9780387450834 |
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