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Astronomical Origins of Life
Hoyle, Sir Fred; Wickramasinghe, N.C.
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Description for Astronomical Origins of Life
Hardback. Shows the logical progression of a thought to lead up to the accepted viewpoint that at least the biochemical building blocks of life must have derived from comets. This book argues that not just the chemicals of life, but fully-fledged microbial cells have an origin that is external to the Earth. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules. Astrobiologists tend to believe that abiotic mater ial will give rise to life in any place where these molecules exist in appreciable abundances and where physical conditions approximate to those occurring here on Earth. We think this popular view is wrong, for it is not the existence of the building blocks of life that is crucial but the exceedingly complicated structures in which they are arranged in living forms. The probability of arriving at biologically significant arrangements is so very small that only ... Read more
Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules. Astrobiologists tend to believe that abiotic mater ial will give rise to life in any place where these molecules exist in appreciable abundances and where physical conditions approximate to those occurring here on Earth. We think this popular view is wrong, for it is not the existence of the building blocks of life that is crucial but the exceedingly complicated structures in which they are arranged in living forms. The probability of arriving at biologically significant arrangements is so very small that only ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
Number of Pages
381
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792360810
SKU
V9780792360810
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