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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262363044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262363044
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13595.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262363044
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells. Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions—“What is life?” and “How did life begin on earth?” In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins research by exploiting a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces and covalent bond formation—a physicochemical approach propounded originally by Linus Pauling and Max Delbrück. Spitzer develops the Pauling–Delbrück premise as a physicochemical jigsaw puzzle that identifies key stages in life's emergence, from the formation of first oceans, tidal sediments, and proto-biofilms to progenotes, proto-cells and the first cellular organisms. Spitzer argues that non-covalent molecular forces, acting in cycling geochemical processes, bring about phase separations—the creation of purified, lower entropy, potentially living biological matter. Geochemical cycling processes—diurnal solar radiation and tidal hydration-dehydration—underpin life's emergence and evolution. After presenting a physicochemical view of how non-covalent molecular forces stabilize a bacterial cell during its cell cycle, Spitzer assembles the puzzle pieces into a working provisional picture of life's emergence. He classifies early Archaean evolution as micro-evolution , meso-evolution , and macro-evolution according to physicochemical mechanisms that can modify the nucleoid during a prokaryotic cell cycle. Finally, he describes some experimental ideas, based on cyclically driven processes.