Life in the Universe

Life in the Universe

From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on other Worlds
Edited by Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen and François Raulin

Table of contents
Introduction to Life in the Universe - Pages 3-5 - Johnson, Torrence V.
The Abdus Salam Lecture Introduction - Pages 7-8 - Baltscheffsky, H.
The Beginning of Chemical Evolution Experiments - Pages 9-16 - Miller, S.L. (et al.)
An Overview of Cosmic Evolution - Pages 17-26 - Coyne, George V., S.J.
Physical Phenomena Underlying the Origin of Life - Pages 27-51 - Pérez-Mercader, Juan
The Origin of Biogenic Elements - Pages 55-58 - Matteucci, F. (et al.)
Thermochemistry of the Dark Age - Pages 59-62 - Puy, Denis
Searching for Oldest Life on Earth: A Progress Report - Pages 63-66 - Moorbath, Stephen (et al.)
The European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association - Pages 67-69 - Brack, A.
The Origin of Biomolecular Chirality - Pages 73-77 - Rivera Islas, J. (et al.)
Salam Hypothesis and The Role of Phase Transition In Amino Acids - Pages 79-82 - Wang, Wenqing (et al.)
A Mechanism for the Prebiotic Emergence of Proteins - Pages 83-87 - Vladar, H. P. (et al.)
Functional, Self-Referential Genetic Coding - Pages 89-91 - Guimarães, Romeu Cardoso (et al.)
Importance of Biased Synthesis in Chemical Evolution Studies - Pages 93-96 - Negron-Mendoza, A. (et al.)
When did Information First Appear in the Universe? - Pages 97-100 - Roederer, Juan G.
Prebiotic Organic Synthesis and the Emergence of Life: From the Miller Experiment to the Start of Biological Evolution - Pages 103-106 - Delaye, L. (et al.)
Origin and Evolution of Very Early Sequence Motifs in Enzymes - Pages 107-110 - Baltscheffsky, H. (et al.)
The Lipid World: From Catalytic and Informational Headgroups to Micelle Replication and Evolution Without Nucleic Acids - Pages 111-114 - Bar-Even, Arren (et al.)
Coenzymes in Evolution of the RNA World - Pages 115-118 - Kritsky, M. S. (et al.)
The Role of Heat in the Origin of Life - Pages 119-120 - Bahn, Peter R. (et al.)
A Possible Pathway for the Transfer of Chiral Bias from Extraterrestrial Cα-Tetrasubstituted α-Amino Acids to Proteinogenic Amino Acids - Pages 121-122 - Crisma, Marco (et al.)
Prebiotic Polymerization of Amino Acids. A Markov Chain Approach - Pages 123-124 - Mosqueira, F.G. (et al.)
The Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Formate in Hydrothermal Sulfide ore Deposit as a Novel Source of Organic Matter - Pages 125-126 - Vladimirov, M.G. (et al.)
Towards a Chronological Order of the Amino Acids - Pages 127-128 - Collis, W. J. M. F.
Origin and Evolution of Metabolic Pathways - Pages 129-132 - Brilli, M. (et al.)
Conserved Oligopeptides in the Rubisco Large Chains - Pages 133-134 - Vidyasagar, Professor(Biophysics) P.B. (et al.)
On the Question of Convergent Evolution in Biochemistry - Pages 135-138 - Akindahunsi, A. A. (et al.)
Diversity of Microbial Life on Earth and Beyond - Pages 139-142 - Seckbach, Joseph
Mineral Surfaces as a Cradle of Primordial Genetic Material - Pages 145-148 - Gallori, Enzo (et al.)
Adsorption and Self-Organization of Small Molecules on Inorganic Surfaces - Pages 149-152 - Fraser, Donald G.
Studies on Copper Chromicyanide as Prebiotic Catalyst - Pages 153-156 - Kamaluddin, (et al.)
Phosphate Immobilization by Primitive Condensers - Pages 157-160 - Souza-Barros, Fernando (et al.)
Adsorption and Catalysis of Nucleotide Hydrolysis by Pyrite in Media Simulating Primeval Aqueous Environments - Pages 161-164 - Vieyra, Adalberto (et al.)
Dust and Planet Formation in the Early Universe - Pages 167-168 - Vladilo, Giovanni
Quasar Absorption-Line Systems and Astrobiology - Pages 169-172 - Vladilo, Giovanni
A New Search for Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way