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Index
Foreword by David Deamer
ix
Preface
xiii
Prologue
1
PART I
EMERGENCE AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
1
The Missing Law
11
2
What Is Life?
25
3
Looking for Life
33
4
Earth's Smallest Fossils
47
5
Idiosyncrasies
61
Interlude—God in the Gaps
77
PART II
THE EMERGENCE OF BIOMOLECULES
6
Stanley Miller's Spark of Genius
83
7
Heaven or Hell?
95
8
Under Pressure
107
9
Productive Environments
121
Interlude—Mythos Versus Logos
129
PART III
THE EMERGENCE OF MACROMOLECULES
10
The Macromolecules of Life
133
11
Isolation
143
12
Minerals to the Rescue
155
13
Left and Right
167
Interlude—Where Are the Women?
187
PART IV
THE EMERGENCE OF SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS
14
Wheels Within Wheels
191
15
The Iron–Sulfur World
205
16
The RNA World
215
17
The Pre-RNA World
221
18
The Emergence of Competition
233
19
Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life
241
Epilogue—The Journey Ahead
245
Notes
247
Bibliography
293
Index
323
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