The emergence of life : from chemical origins to synthetic biology /
Pier Luigi Luisi.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- 315 p. : ill.
Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth -- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that? -- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences -- Self-organization -- The notion of emergence -- Self-replication and self-reproduction -- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life -- Compartments -- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles -- Approaches to the minimal cell. HKBU library