The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Origin of Life—A Subject With a Past and a Future
- "From the Dust of the Ground"
- Spontaneous Generation—Ups and Downs
- The Revival in the Belief in Spontaneous Generation
- Louis Pasteur—The Deathblow to Spontaneous Generation
- Between Pasteur and Darwin—A Dead End
- The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis
- An Era of Optimism
- Evolution in a Test Tube
- Manfred Eigen's Model
- Crisis—Real or Fictitious?
- The RNA World—A Case for Renewed Optimism?
- And Yet, Metabolism
- The Emergence of Life—Neither by Chance nor by Design
- "Life on Mars? So What?"
- Bibliography
- Index