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The Emergence of Life From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
"This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organization, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments, and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the fi...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth
- Approaches to the definitions of life
- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that?
- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences
- Self-organization
- The notion of emergence
- Self-replication and self-reproduction
- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life
- Compartments
- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles
- Approaches to the minimal cell.