1st Edition
The Genomic Potential Hypothesis A Chemist's View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life
By Christian Schwabe
Copyright 2001
112 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
112 Pages
by
CRC Press
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The Genomic Potential Hypothesis is a biochemist's view of the origin, evolution, and development of life. Large numbers are second nature to a biochemist and though he rarely ever thinks of it explicitly, the concept of mass action is a part of the definition of chemistry. The origin of life, from that perspective, will turn into an event that occurs on the molar scale in units of 1023 and is... Read more
Preface, Introduction, 1. Life in a Tenuous Universe, 2. The Frame for New Hypotheses of Evolution, 3. Genomism and the Nature Trail, 4. The Origin of Complexity, 5. Our Young Planet: One Is Not a Choice, 6. The Condensation of Life, 7. The Origins of Species, 8. Development of Biological Potential, 9. Thoughts on Multicellularity: How Nature Got Around Darwin, 10. Natura NonFacit Saltum: Nature Does Nothing in Jumps, 11. The Invariance Concept, 12. On the Evolution of Humans, 13. Molecular Genealogy, 14. Experiments in Evolution, 15. Quintessence
Biography
Christian Schwabe, Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
