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Index
COVER PAGE Contents Foreword Preface Prologue Part I Emergence and the Origin of Life
1 The Missing Law
THE LAWS OF NATURE DESCRIBING EMERGENT SYSTEMS QUANTIFYING THE COMPLEXITY OF EMERGENT SYSTEMS PATTERNS IN THE SAND
Factor 1: The Concentration of Agents Factor 2: The Interconnectivity of Agents Factor 3: Energy Flow Through the System Factor 4: Cycling of Energy Flow
FORMULATING EMERGENCE
2 What Is Life?
“TOP-DOWN” VERSUS “BOTTOM-UP” ORIGINS AND EMERGENCE AN EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY
3 Looking for Life
LIFE ON MARS: THE ALLAN HILLS STORY EARTH'S OLDEST FOSSILS—THE SCHOPF–BRASIER CONTROVERSY
4 Earth's Smallest Fossils
FOSSIL ATOMS FOSSIL ISOTOPES EARTH'S OLDEST “FOSSILS”?
5 Idiosyncrasies
SYNTHETIC QUIRKINESS THE HOPANE STORY BIOSIGNATURES AND ABIOSIGNATURES LOOKING FOR LIFE ON MARS
Interlude—God in the Gaps
Part II The Emergence of Biomolecules
6 Stanley Miller's Spark of Genius
SPECULATION EXPERIMENTS THE COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY DOUBTS
7 Heaven or Hell?
ENERGY DEEP ECOSYSTEMS LIFE IN ROCKS MINING FOR MICROBES THE DEEP HOT BIOSPHERE HEAVEN VERSUS HELL
8 Under Pressure
EXPERIMENTS ENTER WÄCHTERSHÄUSER EXPERIMENTS FIXING CARBON
9 Productive Environments
MOLECULES FROM DEEP SPACE MOLECULES FROM GIANT IMPACTS MOLECULES FROM HOT ROCKS THE MULTIPLE-SOURCE HYPOTHESIS
Interlude—Mythos Versus Logos
Part III The Emergence of Macromolecules
10 The Macromolecules of Life
MODULAR LIVING MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY AND THE “LAST COMMON ANCESTOR”
11 Isolation
SELF-ORGANIZATION MEMBRANES FROM SPACE SELF-ORGANIZATION, REPRISE PYRUVATE REDUX AEROSOL LIFE
12 Minerals to the Rescue
MINERALS AS PROTECTION POLYMERIZATION ON THE ROCKS MORE MINERAL MAGIC CLAY LIFE TESTING
13 Left and Right
THE HANDEDNESS OF LIFE LOCAL SYMMETRY BREAKING CHIRAL MINERAL SURFACES
Interlude—Where Are the Women?
Part IV The Emergence of Self-Replicating Systems
14 Wheels Within Wheels
SELF-REPLICATING MOLECULES SELF-REPLICATING MOLECULAR SYSTEMS THE GAME OF METABOLISM THE PROTENOID WORLD THE THIOESTER WORLD
15 The Iron–Sulfur World
BACK TO THE VENTS THE REVERSE CITRIC ACID CYCLE EXPERIMENTS FLAT LIFE
16 The RNA World
THE RNA WORLD CAVEATS
17 The Pre-RNA World
THE PAH WORLD EUREKA! SHARING OPINIONS EXPERIMENTS MOVING ON
18 The Emergence of Competition
MOLECULAR SELECTION AND EVOLUTION EVOLUTION IN THE LAB SELF-REPLICATING RNA SYNTHETIC LIFE
19 Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life
Epilogue The Journey Ahead Notes Bibliography Index
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