Genesis and Evolutionary Development of Life e-bog

Genesis and Evolutionary Development of Life discusses the present state of thought on the origin and development of life. The book contains six chapters and begins with a brief history of attempts to solve the problem of the origin of life. This is followed by separate chapters the discuss the following events: the initial stages in the evolution of carbon compounds; formation of the "e;primitive soup"e;; origin of prebiological systems; evolution of "e;protobionts"e; and the origin of the first organisms; and the further evolution of the first organisms.