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Index
Cover
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: The Meaning of Life
Life’s mysterious origin
What is Life?
The life force and other discredited notions
The tale of the ancient molecule
Microbes and the search for Eden
Chapter 2: Against the Tide
The degeneration principle
Where does biological information come from?
The entropy gap: gravity as the fountainhead of order
Chapter 3: Out of the Slime
The tree of life
The three domains of life
The earliest rock fossils
Spontaneous generation
Re-creating the primordial soup
Chance and the origin of life
Chapter 4: The Message in the Machine
Replicate, replicate!
Making a living
The genetic code
Getting the message
A code within the code?
Chapter 5: The Chicken-and-Egg Paradox
RNA first
RNA last
Self-organization: something for nothing?
Chapter 6: The Cosmic Connection
The Stardust in your eyes
Cosmic chemistry
Genesis from space
Impact
The Sisyphus effect
Chapter 7: Superbugs
Some like it hot
Life in the underworld
Ascent from Hades
Let them eat rock
The rest is history
Chapter 8: Mars: Red and Dead?
A bad place for a vacation
Flood
The Martian greenhouse
Was there life on Mars?
Is there still life on Mars?
Meteorites from Mars
Traces of life?
Killer plague from the red planet!
Chapter 9: Panspermia
Survival in space
Did life come to Earth in a meteorite?
Did Earthlife come from Mars?
Did Earthlife go to Mars?
Chapter 10: A Bio-Friendly Universe?
Did life ever begin?
Are the laws of nature rigged in favor of life?
Is it Darwinism all the way down?
A ladder of progress?
Is mind predestined?
Notes
Index
Copyright
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