The emergence of life :from chemical origins to synthetic biology
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Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press
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c2006
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xv, 315 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Pier Luigi Luisi
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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