カワムラ　クニオ   KAWAMURA Kunio   川村　邦男    所属   広島修道大学  人間環境学部    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2024/02
形態種別	著書
招待	招待あり
標題	The First Steps of Life
執筆形態	分担
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	Wiley
巻・号・頁	pp.163-192
頁数	30
総ページ数	272
担当範囲	Hydrothermalism for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Simplest Life-Like System on the Hadean Earth
概要	Origin of Life studies have a nearly-impossible goal: understanding nature through the comprehension of its origins and its complexities. As a growing field with poorly-defined borders, Origin of Life studies profit from progress in other disciplines. This book proposes both an overview of this large area and an in-depth look at the opinions and results obtained by some of the active contributors of this fascinating and deeply thought-provoking matter. The topics are presented in a bottom-up order, first touching on the habitability of the universe, then the rationale behind meaningful prebiotic chemistry, the possible or probable prebiotic chemical frames, the problem of chirality, and moving on through the role of minerals in biogenesis, biogenic fertile environments, the in-and-out problem as solved by vesicles physics, the evolution of the codes, the structure of LUCA and its proto metabolisms and the meaning of complex extant biological biomorphs, as exemplified by viroids.