The emergence of life :from chemical origins to synthetic biology
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
c2006
xv, 315 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pier Luigi Luisi
Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth -- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that? -- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences -- Self-organization -- The notion of emergence -- Self-replication and self-reproduction -- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life -- Compartments -- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles -- Approaches to the minimal cell