Summary:

The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much
research for decades, both experimentally and philosophically. Luisi
takes the reader through the consecutive stages from prebiotic
chemistry to synthetic biology, uniquely combining both approaches.
This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive
stages of self-organisation, emergence, self-replication,
autopoiesis, synthetic compartments and construction of cellular
models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in
complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A
chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of
synthetic and biological examples. With end of chapter review
questions to aid reader comprehension, this book will appeal to
graduate students and academics researching the origin of life and
related areas such as evolutionary biology, biochemistry, molecular
biology, biophysics and natural sciences. Additional resources are
available at www.cambridge.org/9780521821179.

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