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Introduction to Your Ancestor | p. vii |
Before We Begin: A Voluntary Chapter | p. 1 |
Framing the Problem: The Buffalo and the Bacterium | p. 5 |
The Big Tree: No Jackalopes Please | p. 13 |
A Dance of Atoms | p. 30 |
Allegro Agitato: The Origin of Life | p. 36 |
The Winds That Blow through the Starry Ways | p. 46 |
Tornados in a Junkyard | p. 59 |
Between Genomes and Creatures | p. 79 |
A Thumbnail Molecular Biology | p. 84 |
RNA Structure: A Tape with a Shape | p. 99 |
Intimations of an RNA World | p. 109 |
The Experimentally Impaired Sciences | p. 119 |
Test Tube RNA Evolution: First Light | p. 126 |
Selection Amplification: Interrogating RNA's Possibilities | p. 132 |
RNA Duplication: Replicase Activity in Real RNAs | p. 141 |
RNA Capabilities and the Origins of Translation | p. 149 |
The Quest for the Peptidyl Transferase | p. 155 |
A Language Much Older Than Hieroglyphics: The Genetic Code | p. 161 |
Assume a Spherical Cow: The Ribocyte | p. 176 |
The Future of the RNA World | p. 183 |
Lexicon | p. 187 |
Index | p. 195 |
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