Thermodynamic Inversion
Origin of Living Systems
Erschienen am 10. März 2017
Buch
Hardcover
XIX, 275 Seiten
978-3-319-53510-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book discusses the theory, general principles, and energy source conditions allowing for the emergence of life in planetary systems. The author examines the material conditions found in natural hydrothermal sites, the appropriate analogs of prebiotic environments on early Earth. He provides an overview of current laboratory experiments in prebiotic materials chemistry and substantiation of a new direction for the experiments in the origin of life field.Describes thermodynamic inversion and how it relates to the living cell;Examines the current direction of experiments on prebiotic materials chemistry;Introduces and substantiates necessary conditions for the emergenceof life.
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Auflage
1st ed. 2017
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Cham
Schweiz
Verlagsgruppe
Springer International Publishing
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
37 s/w Abbildungen, 48 farbige Abbildungen
XIX, 275 p. 85 illus., 48 illus. in color.
Maße
Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
Gewicht
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-53510-4 (9783319535104)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53512-8
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Person
Vladimir N. Kompanichenko,
Ph.D. (Geology) is a leading research scientist at the Institute for Complex Analysis of Regional Problems (the Russian Academy of Science) in Birobidzhan. He carries out the interdisciplinary research in Astrobiology that includes the theoretical elaboration of the inversion concept of life origin in fluctuating hydrothermal medium (on Earth and beyond), and the experimental exploration of hydrothermal systems aimed to detection of organic compounds and describing of pressure-temperature oscillations. He worked as a visiting scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Biochemistry (2001), and at University of California at Santa Cruz, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2004-2006). For the period of 1997-2004 he took a part-time position Professor at the two Universities in Khabarovsk (Russia) teaching Natural Science and the special course in Astrobiology.
Inhalt
Astrobiology: Approaches to the Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond.- Part I. Life and a Principal Way of Its Origin in the Universe.- General Thermodynamic Characteristics of Living Systems.-
Principal Way of Life Origin in the Universe.- General Characteristics of the Origin-of-life Medium.- Part II. Origin of Initial Living Systems on Early Earth.- Irreversible Prebiotic Evolution in Hydrothermal Systems.- Exchange of Information During Prebiotic Evolution.- Origin of Primary Living Systems on Earth in Course of Thermodynamic Inversion.- Part III. Kamchatka Geothermal Region AS A Testing Ground for Investigation OF THE Origin-of-Life Process.- Hydrothermal Systems in Kamchatka Peninsula and the Adjoining Region: Geological and Hydrochemical Characteristics.- Changeability of Pressure, Temperature and Concentrations of Components in the Explored Hydrothermal Systems.- Organic Matter in the Hydrothermal Systems of Kamchatka Peninsula and Nearby Area.