Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life » (1st Edition)

Leading researchers in the area of the origin and evolution of life in the universe contributed to Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life. This volume provides a review of this interdisciplinary field. In 35 chapters many aspects of the origin of life are discussed by 90 authors, with particular emphasis on the early paleontological record: physical, chemical, biological, and informational aspects of life's origin, instrumentation in exobiology and system exploration; the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial intelligent radio signals.
This book contains the proceedings of the Fourth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution that took place in September 1995, in which scientists from a wide geographical distribution joined in a Memorial to Cyril Ponnamperuma, who was a pioneer in the field of chemical evolution, the origin of life, and exobiology, and also initiated the Trieste Conferences on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life. This fourth Conference was therefore dedicated to his memory.
Audience: Graduate students and researchers in the many areas of basic, earth, and life sciences that contribute to the study of chemical evolution and the origin of life.

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The proceedings from the September 1995 conference are, literally, out of this world. A collection of 35 papers presented by 90 scientific researchers investigating the origin and evolution of life in the universe present research reviews addressing the physical, chemical, biological, and informational aspects of life's origin, instrumentation in exobiology and system exploration, and the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial intelligent radio signals. The essays regarding the oxygen and rapid evolution of life on Mars, and strategies for the detection of bioorganic compounds on Mars take on new dimensions given this year's most publicized scientific discovery<-->compounds seen in Mar's rocks that indicate life. Includes a special memorial section devoted to Cyril Ponnamperuma, the conference's founder. Includes illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.