Genesis - In The Beginning

<p>PRELIMINARY SECTION<br>Pathways to “Genesis - In the Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution”; Joseph Seckbach<br>Introduction to Genesis - In  The Beginning; David W. Deamer<br>Foreword; Steven A. Benner<br>Origins of Life - Keeping Options Open; Alan W. Schwartz<br>PART 1. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION<br>The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids; H. James Cleaves II, Jeffrey Bada<br>Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks; Chrisantha Fernando, Vera Vasas<br>Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats;  Enzo Gallori, Sergio Branciamore<br>Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication: A Primer for Experimentalists; Kelly Harris, Irene A. Chen<br>Life without Carbon; Rob Hengeveld<br>[GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life; Kenji Ikehara<br>Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth; Kunio Kawamura<br>The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life; Osmel Martin, Rolando Cardenas, Liuba Peñate, J.E. Horvath<br>Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach; F.G Mosqueira, A. Negrón-Mendoza, S. Ramos-Bernal, C. Polanco<br>Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids; M Pawlikowski<br>Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of ; Michael Simakov<br>The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life; David Summers<br>PART 2. THE ROLE OF PHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICS IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE<br>Moving ‘Far from Equilibrium’ in a Prebiotic Environment: The Role of Maxwell’s Demon in Life Origin; David L. Abel<br>Life from Interface; Katsuhiko Ariga,; Gary J. Richards, and Jonathan P.Hill<br>Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life; Tom Barbalet<br />Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: a 21st Century Grand Challenge; Bruce Damer, Peter Newman, Ryan Norkus, Richard Gordon and Tom Barbalet<br>Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life; Norikazu Ichihashi, Tomoaki Matsuura, Hiroshi Kita; Takeshi Sunami, Hiroaki Suzuki, and Tetsuya Yomo<br>Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process; Vladimir Kompanichenko<br>Life Explained by Heat Engines; Anthonie W.J. Muller<br>Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes; Albert Rimola, Mariona Sodupe and Piero Ugliengo<br>The Cometary Hydrosphere; Robert B.Sheldon<br>In Situ, High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life; David Wacey<br>PART 3. THE ROLE OF SYMMETRY, INFORMATION AND ORDER IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE<br>Disorder to Order, Non-Life to Life. In the Beginning There Was a Mistake; Ernesto Di Mauro, Keith A. Dunker and Eward N. Trifonov<br>The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life; B. Roy Frieden and Robert A. Gatenby<br>The Origin of First Peptides on Earth – From Amino Acids to Homochiral Biomolecules; Thomas Jakschitz, Daniel Fitz and Bernd Michael Rode<br>Chemical Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality; Martin Klußmann<br>Absolute Asymmetric Reactions and the Origin of Biological Chirality; Gábor Lente<br>Energy-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Chiral Order (Lessons from Dynamic Systems Modelling); Radu Pop and Vily M. Cimpoiasu<br>PART 4. PANSPERMIA<br>Recurrent Dreams of Life in Meteorites; Richard Gordon and Jesse McNichol<br>Are We from Outer Space? A Critical Review of the Panspermia Hypothesis; Jesse McNichol and Richard Gordon<br>Origin of Life and Panspermia; Chandra Wickramasinghe<br>PART 5. THE FIRST STEPS OF CELLULAR EVOLUTION<br>The Dimeric Proto-Ribosome Within the Modern Ribosome; Ilana Agmon<br>Oceanic Arginine Translator: The Origin of Life and Early Evolution of the Genetic Code; Robert W.Griffith<br>Tidal Cycling and the Origin of the Genetic Code: Implications for Cellular Life; Richard Lathe<br />Heterotrophic Model  Protocells; Sheref S. Mansy and Cristina Del Bianco<br>A Symbiogenic Way in the Origin of Life; Luisa Pereira, Telma Rodrigues and Francisco Carrapiço<br>Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life; Jan Sapp<br>On the Vesicular Origin of the Cell Cycle; Saša Svetina<br>Hypothesized Micro-Environments for the Origin of Microbial Life on Earth; Jack T. Trevors, Asim K. Bej and Jan Dirk van Elsas<br>PART 6. THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE COSMOS<br>What can Life on Earth Tell Us about Life in the Universe? Charles H. Lineweaver and Aditya Chopra<br>Potential for Life in the Saturn System; Francois Raulin<br>Energy Sources for, and Detectability of, Life on Extrasolar Planets; John A. Raven, Charles S. Cockell and Lisa Kaltenegger<br>Environments Habitable by Extremophiles on Earth, the Solar System and Elsewhere; Joseph Seckbach and Julian Chela-Flores<br>PART 7. HISTORY AND FRONTIERS OF ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES<br>Cultural Implications of the Search and Eventual Discovery of a Second Genesis; Roberto Artxaga Burgos and Julian Chela-Flores<br>The Concept of Chemical Evolution before Oparin; Florence Raulin Cerceau<br>A History of Origin of Life Ideas from Darwin to NASA; James E.Strick</p>