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Preface | p. vii |
Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
Historical Development of Origins Research | p. 5 |
Setting The Stage | |
Cosmic Carbon Chemistry: From the Interstellar Medium to the Early Earth | p. 21 |
The Hadean-Archaean Environment | p. 35 |
Earth's Earliest Atmospheres | p. 49 |
Components of First Life | |
Planetary Organic Chemistry and the Origins of Biomolecules | p. 67 |
The Organic Composition of Carbonaceous Meteorites: The Evolutionary Story Ahead of Biochemistry | p. 89 |
Ribonucleotides | p. 109 |
The Origin of Biological Homochirality | p. 123 |
Primitive Systems | |
Bioenergetics and Life's Origins | p. 141 |
Mineral Surfaces, Geochemical Complexities, and the Origins of Life | p. 157 |
From Self-Assembled Vesicles to Protocells | p. 179 |
Membrane Transport in Primitive Cells | p. 193 |
First Polymers | |
Primitive Genetic Polymers | p. 207 |
Closing the Circle: Replicating RNA with RNA | p. 229 |
The Origins of Cellular Life | p. 245 |
Transition to a Microbial World | |
Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome | p. 261 |
Deep Phylogeny-How a Tree Can Help Characterize Early Life on Earth | p. 279 |
Constructing Partial Models of Cells | p. 295 |
An Origin of Life on Mars | p. 305 |
Index | p. 313 |
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