Pier Luigi Luisi <br/><br/>
The Emergence of Life From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology 

 - 	Cambridge   Cambridge University Press  2006 
 - 	xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm 
<br/><br/>	Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth -- Approaches to the definitions of life -- 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. 
<br/><br/>  	 "This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organization, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments, and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of synthetic and biological examples."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521821179 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> 	      Life -- Origin. 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>576.83 LUI-E