TY - BOOK ID - 77893023 TI - Seven clues to the origin of life PY - 1985 SN - 0511001169 9780511001161 0521398282 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Life KW - Biological Processes KW - Genetic Processes KW - Genetic Phenomena KW - Biological Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Biological Evolution KW - Biology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Biology - General KW - Evolution, Biological KW - Sociobiology KW - Biologic Phenomena KW - Biological Phenomenon KW - Biological Process KW - Phenomena, Biological KW - Phenomena, Biologic KW - Phenomenon, Biological KW - Process, Biological KW - Processes, Biological KW - Genetic Concepts KW - Genetic Phenomenon KW - Genetic Process KW - Concept, Genetic KW - Concepts, Genetic KW - Genetic Concept KW - Phenomena, Genetic KW - Phenomenon, Genetic KW - Process, Genetic KW - Processes, Genetic KW - Molecular Biology KW - Abiogenesis KW - Biogenesis KW - Germ theory KW - Heterogenesis KW - Life, Origin of KW - Life (Biology) KW - Origin of life KW - Plasmogeny KW - Plasmogony KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Exobiology KW - Spontaneous generation KW - Origin KW - Origin of Life. KW - Biological Evolution. KW - Genesis of Life KW - Life Geneses KW - Life Genesis KW - Life Origin KW - Life Origins KW - Organelle Biogenesis KW - Evolution. Phylogeny KW - Origin. KW - Prebiotic Chemical Evolution KW - Chemical Evolution, Prebiotic KW - Evolution, Prebiotic Chemical KW - Prebiotic Chemical Evolutions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893023 AB - This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins of life in which the important issues are addressed pertinently, economically and with a happy recourse to creative analogies.' Nature '... a splendid story - and a much more convincing one than the molecular biologists can offer as an alternative. Cairns-Smith has argued his case before in the technical scientific literature, here he sets it out in a way from which anyone - even those whose chemistry and biology stopped at sixteen - can learn.' New Statesman ER -