An edition of A brief history of creation
(2015)
A brief history of creation
science and the search for the origin of life
First edition.
by Bill Mesler
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An essential history of Western scientific studies into the origins of life examines historical discoveries in the contexts of philosophical debates, political change, and evolving understandings about the complexities of biology.
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Origin, Life, Science, History, Philosophy, Biology, Research, Life, origin, Livets uppkomst| Edition | Availability |
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Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
2016, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393353192 9780393353198
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A brief history of creation: science and the search for the origin of life
2016, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
in English
- First edition.
0393083551 9780393083552
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Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
2015, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393248542 9780393248548
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Table of Contents
1. By the action of your sun. Ancients ask where life comes from ; Anaximander explains the natural world ; Aristotle writes of "spontaneous generation"
2. Provando e riprovando. Francesco Redi and the scientific method ; Van Helmont's recipe for mice ; "All life comes from an egg"
3. The eye of a gnat. The Enlightenment transforms science ; Hooke pens Micrographia ; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the microscopic world
4. The laboratory of the atheists. Voltaire subscribes to intelligent design ; Atheists seize upon the origin of life ; Buffon observes "reproduction"
5. A vital force. Andrew Crosse's "extraordinary experiment" ; Vitalism and "imponderable fluids" ; Vestiges of the natural history of creation captivates Britain
6. Breathed by the creator into a few forms or one. The Beagle sets sail for the Galápagos ; The Origin of species wins converts ; Charles Darwin imagines a "warm little pond"
7. Pleasant, though they be deceitful dreams. Pasteur dispels the notion of a "useless God" ; Thomas Huxley grooms a new generation ; The germ theory of disease versus spontaneous generation
8. No vestige of a beginning. The earth grows ever older ; J.B.S. Haldane imagines a "half-living" thing ; Alexander Oparin reimagines an ancient planet
9. A laboratory earth. Stanley Miller creates the precursors for life ; Scientists flock to exobiology ; NASA enters the origin-of-life game
10. The nucleic acid monopoly. Apollo 11 looks for clues on the moon ; Sidney Fox and his proteinoid microspheres ; Crick and Watson discover "the secret of life"
11. Life everywhere. An enigmatic Martian rock ; Panspermia recisited ; Life in meteorites?
12. One primordial form. The last universal common ancestor ; The Woesian revolution ; Scientists look to undersea vents
13. A cell is born. The birth of the RNA world ; Genetic engineering opens doors ; A new gensis?
Epilogue
Appendix: Recipes for life.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.
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