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First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe

Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution Trieste, Italy 18–22 September, 2000

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Table of contents (69 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Special Evening Lecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Possible Primordial Genetic Polymer

      • Kevin E. Nelson, Antonio Lazcano, Stanley L. Miller
      Pages 3-10
  3. The Abdus Salam Lecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Physics and Life

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 13-20
  4. The Cyril Ponnamperuma Lecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
  5. Opening Lecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Europa: Prospects for an Ocean and Life

      • Cynthia B. Phillips, Christopher F. Chyba
      Pages 27-34
  6. Historical aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-36
    2. Sidney Walter Fox

      • Aristotel Pappelis, Peter Bahn, Randall Grubbs
      Pages 37-38
    3. Reminiscences-Pont-A-Mousson-1970 to Trieste-2000

      • Mohindra S. Chadha
      Pages 43-46
  7. The origin of life in the universe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Materials for “First Steps” in Evolution

      • A. G. Cairns-Smith
      Pages 49-53
    3. Chemical Evolution Studies in Organic Compounds Adsorbed in Clays

      • S. Ramos-Bernal, A. Negron-Mendoza
      Pages 59-63
    4. From Inanimate Macromolecules to the Animate Photocell

      • Aristotel Pappelis, Peter Bahn, Randall Grubbs, John Bozzola, Peter Cohen
      Pages 65-68
    5. HPLC Evidence of Nonrandomness in Thermal Proteins

      • Peter R. Bahn, Aristotel Pappelis
      Pages 69-72
    6. IR Spectra of Protein, Thermal Protein, Thermal Glycoprotein

      • Peter R. Bahn, Aristotel Pappelis
      Pages 73-76

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    JuliÁn Chela-Flores

  • Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Caracas, Venezuela

    JuliÁn Chela-Flores

  • Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu (Hawaii), USA

    Tobias Owen

  • Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, LISA, Creteil Cedex, France

    François Raulin

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