The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Pier Luigi Luisi

doi:10.1017/CBO9781316135990

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The Emergence of Life

From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xi

Introduction
pp xii-xiv

Part I - Approaches to the origin of life
pp 1-2

1 - Setting the stage
pp 3-30

2 - The hardware
pp 31-56

3 - Ascending the ramp of complexity
pp 57-71

4 - Experimental approaches to the origin of life
pp 72-96

5 - Origin of life from ground zero
pp 97-116

Part II - What is life? The bio-logics of cellular life
pp 117-118

6 - Autopoiesis – the invariant property
pp 119-156

7 - Cognition
pp 157-188

Part III - Order and organization in biological systems
pp 189-190

8 - Self-organization
pp 191-228

9 - The notion of emergence
pp 229-246

10 - Self-replication and self-reproduction
pp 247-262

Part IV - The world of vesicles
pp 263-264

11 - The various types of surfactant aggregates
pp 265-296

12 - Vesicle reactivity and transformations
pp 297-318

13 - Biochemistry and molecular biology in vesicles
pp 319-332

Part V - Towards the synthetic biology of minimal cells
pp 333-334

14 - A panoramic view of synthetic biology
pp 335-368

15 - The minimal cell
pp 369-399

As a way of conclusion
pp 400-403

Appendix - The open questions about the origin of life
pp 404-418

References
pp 419-456

Names index
pp 457-460

Subject index
pp 461-464