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"An authoritative voice weighs in on a sprawling debate that's been raging in the scientific community for many decades, and lays out a succinct and persuasive hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth."—The Scientist"Engaging. . . . [Deamer] gives us an enriched sense of how the universe works."—The Quarterly Review of Bio
"Insightfully written"—Times Higher Education
"Eloquent. . . . A preeminent leader in the field tells his personal story of discovery in a unique and absorbing way."—Bioscience
"Insightfully written"—Times Higher Education
Overview
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds. Deamer argues that ...