Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe Proceedings of the Fifth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution: An Abdus Salam Memorial Trieste, Italy, 22–26 September 1997
Leading researchers in the area of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe contributed to Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe. This volume provides a review of this interdisciplinary field. In 50 chapters many aspects...
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1998, 1998
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Table of Contents:
- Some aspects of the irradiation of HCN and related compounds and its role in prebiotic chemistry
- The role played by solid state surfaces in prebiotic chemistry
- Mutually catalytic amphiphiles: Simulated chemical evolution and implications to exobiology
- Salam Phase Transition and the Causal Origin of Homochirality
- Physical studies of adsorbed bio-organic substances in Na-Montmorillonite
- On the prevailing direction of our search into the origin of life-“Second Thoughts”
- Section 4. Information
- Generic Properties of the Sequence-Structure Relations of Biopolymers
- Genetic code: Dinucleotide type, Hydropathic and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Class Organization
- Cognitive universals: Abstract psychology of terrestrial and extraterrestrial intelligence
- Section 5. Early evolution
- Early cellular evolution:Preliminary results from comparative genomic analysis
- Ultrastructure in the carbonate globules of Martian meteorite ALH84001
- Production and Detection of Organic Compounds on Mars
- Prebiotic Synthesis by Lightning in Martian Volcanic Plumes
- Earliest microbes on Earth and possible occurrence of stromatolites on Mars
- Section 8. The Interstellar Medium, Comets and Chemical Evolution
- Cometary contributions to planetary atmospheres
- Comets as a source of life’s origins
- Formation of molecular hydrogen: The mother of all molecules
- Prebiotic chemistry induced by ion irradiation of ices
- Extraterrestrial delivery of simple biomolecules to the Earth: Survival of amino acids and nucleic acid bases
- Section 9. Exobiology on Titan
- Titan’s chemistry: Exobiological aspects and expected contribution from Cassini Huygens
- Production of Organic Gases and Aerosols by Electrical Activity inTitan’s Tropospheric Clouds
- Section 10. Extrasolar Planets
- The search for habitable planets and Life in the Universe
- Impact of Darwin’stheory on “origins of life” and “extraterrestrial life” debates, and some wider topics
- The oldest fossil mineral bacteria from the Early Archean of South Africa and Australia
- The Evolutionary Aspects of Coenzyme Photobiochemistry
- Origin of the Proto-cell Membrane: Great Importance of the Phospholipid Bilaner
- Animate protocells from inanimate thermal proteins: Visualization of the process
- Did the first cells emerge from a microsphere?
- Section 6. Exobiology: General Perspectives
- Exobiology in Earth Orbit
- Production of Organic Compounds in Interstellar Space: Design for Exobiology Experiments on the Earth Orbit
- Section 7. Exobiology on Mars and Europa
- The search for extraterrestrial biochemistry on Mars and Europa
- Possible degree of evolution of solar-system microorganisms
- Is there an alternative path in eukaryogenesis? An astrobiological View on Making the Nucleated Cell
- Did Earthlife come from Mars?
- Exochirality in the solar system and beyond
- DRVS and the search for life on extrasolar planets
- Section 11. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- A full-sky survey for ultra-narrowband artificial signals
- SETI these last few years: An interdisciplinary overview
- SETI from Space and the Moon Far Side in the Next Century
- Author Index
- List of Participants
- Section 1. General Overview
- Abdus Salam From Fundamental Interactions to the Origin of Life
- The Abdus Salam Lecture: Cosmochemical Evolution: A Unifying and Creative Process in the Universe
- Opening Lecture: The Theory of Common Descent
- The Cyril Ponnamperuma Lecture: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
- Public Lecture: Are We Alone in the Universe?
- Section 2. Matter in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe
- The Concept of Matter and Materialism in the Origin and Evolution of Life
- Re-appraisal of the age of the oldest water-lain sediments, West Greenland: Significance for the existence of life on the early Archaean Earth
- The Origin of Mind and Life
- Section 3. Energy from Inert to Living Matter
- Energy for the Origin of Life
- Visually retracing the emergence of the evolvable protocell
- Radicals, Ions and Molecules in Chemical Evolution