Vital dust : life as a cosmic imperative /

Vital dust : life as a cosmic imperative / Christian de Duve.

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The author guides us on a wondrous journey through the past four billion years, from the formation of the first biomolecules to the complexities of the human mind, from microscopic chains of amino acids and nucleotides to cataclysmic events in distant galaxies, arriving at the compelling conclusion...

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Main Author: De Duve, Christian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [1995]
Subjects:
Life > Origin.
Life (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Origin of Life.
Biological Evolution.
Evolution, Chemical.
Table of Contents:
  • The search for Origins
  • The First Catalysts of Life
  • The Fuel of Emerging life
  • The Advent of RNA
  • RNA Takes Over
  • The Code
  • Genes in the Making
  • Freedom and Constraints
  • Encapsulating Life
  • Turning Membranes into Machines
  • Adaptation to Life in Confinement
  • The Ancestor of All Life
  • The Universality of Life
  • Bacteria Conquer the World
  • The Making of a Eukaryote
  • The Primitive Phagocyte
  • The Guests That Stayed
  • The benefits of cellular Collectivism
  • The Greening of the Earth
  • The First Animals
  • Animals Fill the Oceans
  • Animals Move Out of the Sea
  • The Web of Life
  • The Virtues of Junk DNA
  • The Step to human
  • The brain
  • The Workings of the Mind
  • The Works of the Mind
  • The Future of Life
  • The Meaning of life.

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