TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pier Luigi Luisi
TI  - The Emergence of Life From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
SN  - 9780521821179
U1  - 576.83 LUI-E 
PY  - 2006///
CY  -  	Cambridge
PB  -  Cambridge University Press
KW  -  	      Life -- Origin.
N1  -  	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
N2  -  	 "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
ER  -