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Description of  How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life: The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells. Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions "What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins research by exploiting a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces and covalent bond formation a physicochemical approach propounded originally by Linus Pauling and Max Delbrck. Spitzer develops the Pauling-Delbrck premise as a physicochemical jigsaw puzzle that identifies key stages in life's emergence, from the formation of first oceans, tidal sediments, and proto-biofilms to progenotes, proto-cells and the first cellular organisms. Read more