Origins Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life - Seckbach, Joseph; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004)
Origin & Evolution of Life -- The Fact of Life -- Historical Review of the Origin of Life and Astrobiology -- In the Beginning -- The Standard Scenario -- The Chemistry of Life's Origins -- Prebiotic Amphiphilic Compounds -- Theoretical and Computational Approaches to the Study of the Origin of Life -- The HCN World -- The Possible Role of Volcanic Lightning in Chemical Evolution -- Chemistry in Prebiotic Aerosols: A Mechanism for the Origin of Life -- Alternatives to the Standard Scenario -- Prebiotic Interplay Between Fatty Acids and Amino Acids in Hydrothermal Environments -- The Role of Clays in the Origin of Life -- Organomineralization -- The First Steps of Biological Evolution -- Role of Nucleotide-Like Coenzymes in Primitive Evolution -- Cosmic Thermobiology -- Paradigm Completion for Generalized Evolutionary Theory with Application to Epistemology -- The First Cells -- The Outlines Of Bacterial Evolution -- Cell Wall Structures of Mesophilic, Thermophilic and Hyperthermophilic Archaea -- Potential Role of Dissimilatory Iron Reduction in the Early Evolution of Microbial Respiration -- The Evolution of Lipids in Prokaryotes -- Calcium Build-up in the Precambrian Sea -- The Viral Eukaryogenesis Theory -- Extremophiles & Biodiversity -- To The Extremophiles -- Alkalithermophiles: A Double Challenge From Extreme Environments -- Halophilic Microorganisms: Physiology and Phylogeny -- Adaptation of Bacteria to the Terrestrial Permafrost Environment -- Phototrophic Bacteria Under UV Stress -- Importance of Chemolithotrophy for Early Life on Earth: The Tinto River (Iberian Pyritic Belt) Case -- Glacial Periods on Early Earth and Implications for the Evolution of Life -- The Evolutionary Ecology of Species Diversity in Stressed and Extreme Environments -- Microbial Diversity in Meso-Neoproterozoic Formations, with Particular Reference to the Himalaya -- Microbial Biodiversity within the Vibrionaceae -- Distribution & Destiny of Life in the Universe -- Comets and the Origin of Life on the Primitive Earth -- Evaluating Comets as A Source of Earth's Water -- From Microbial Fossils to Astrobiology -- Organisms in Extreme Environments: From the Origin and Early Evolution of Life on Earth to Astrobiology -- A Brief Geological History of Water on Mars -- Evolution of the Martin Water Inventory -- Possible Biogeochemical Cycles on Titan -- Astrobiology's Last Frontiers.
Keywords: Environmental engineering; Biotechnology; Gravitation; Astrophysics; Evolutionary biology; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Evolutionary Biology