Iris Fry

Emergence of Life on Earth

A Historical and Scientific Overview

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new series presents innovative titles pertaining to human origins, evolution, and behavior from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Subject areas include but are not limited to biological and physical anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology. The series volumes will be of interest primarily to students and scholars in these fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780813527406
• ISBN-10: 0813527406
• Artikelnr.: 21062441

Autorenporträt

IRIS FRY teaches at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, and in the department of humanities and arts at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Her book The Origin of Life: Mystery or Scientific Problem? was published in Israel in 1997. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "From the Dust of the Ground"
2. Spontaneous Generation--Ups and Downs
3. The Revival of the Belief in Spontaneous Generation
4. Louis Pasteur--the Deathblow to Spontaneous Generation
5. Between Pasteur and Darwin--A Dead End
6. The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis
7. An Era of Optimism
8. Evolution in a Test Tube
9. Manfred Eigen's Model
10. Crisis--Real or Fictitious? 
11. The RNA World--A Case for Renewed Optimism? 
12. And Yet, Metabolism
13. The Emergence of Life--Neither By Chance Nor By Design
14. "Life on Mars? So What?"
Bibliography
Index