How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life: The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells

By Jan Spitzer

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 Delbr?ck. Spitzer develops the Pauling-Delbr?ck 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045575
• ISBN13: 9780262045575
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"