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Cosmology. --- Exobiology. --- Life --- Origin.

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This title presents a succinct and accessible guide to the key episodes in the story of life on Earth - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today.

Life --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Evolution (Biology) --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation --- Origin. --- Origin

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"How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and their right-handed mirror images, was violated. The balance is inevitably tipped to the left – provoking that life’s proteins today exclusively implement the left form of amino acids. Written in an intoxicating style, this book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into stereochemistry, the author addresses the inherent property of amino acids in living organisms, namely the preference for left-handedness. What was the cause for violation of parity of amino acids in the emergence of life on Earth? All the fascinating models proposed by physicists, chemists and biologist are vividly presented including the scientific conflicts. The author describes the attempt to verify any of those models with the chirality module of the ROSETTA mission, a probe built and launched with the mission to land on a comet and analyse whether there are chiral organic compounds that could have been brought to the Earth by cometary impacts. A truly interdisciplinary astrobiology book, "Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life", will fascinate students, researchers and all readers with backgrounds in natural sciences.. With a foreword by Henri B. Kagan.

Exobiology. --- Life --- Asymmetry (Chemistry) --- Origin. --- Astrobiology --- Biology --- Habitable planets --- Molecular asymmetry --- Stereochemistry --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Evolution (Biology) --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation --- Origin --- Biochemistry. --- Bioorganic chemistry. --- Astrobiology. --- Astrophysics. --- Protein Science. --- Bioorganic Chemistry. --- Biogeosciences. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Biochemistry, general. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Bio-organic chemistry --- Biological organic chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Chemistry, Organic --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition --- Proteins . --- Geobiology. --- Space sciences. --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Proteids --- Biomolecules --- Polypeptides --- Proteomics

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Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the 19th century's most potent intellectual forces. In this rich and varied collection, writers from a range of fields explore Wallace's work - and influence today - as a biologist, collector, and a Victorian deeply engaged with the social, political, and philosophical issues of the age.

Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection --- Biogeography --- Exobiology --- Astrobiology --- Biology --- Habitable planets --- Life --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species --- Species distribution --- Geography --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- History --- Origin --- Geographical distribution --- Wallace, Alfred Russel, --- Ěōllēs, A. Ṛ., --- Wallace, A. R.

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Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, we only have a great number of - to some extent even contradictory – hypotheses. Meanwhile there came up some scientific findings beyond thought only a few years ago. Horst Rauchfuss is comparing the different theories from the view of the latest results and is giving an exciting and easy understandable insight into the present state of research.

Life --- Molecular evolution. --- Cosmochemistry. --- Origin. --- Astrochemistry --- Cosmic chemistry --- Space chemistry --- Chemistry --- Space sciences --- Biochemical evolution --- Chemical evolution --- Evolution --- Molecular biology --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Evolution (Biology) --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation --- Origin --- Life sciences. --- Astrobiology. --- Chemistry. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Anthropology. --- Popular Science in Nature and Environment. --- Chemistry/Food Science, general. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Human beings --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Physical sciences --- Astrobiology --- Habitable planets --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Nature. --- Environment. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Primitive societies --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Social sciences