Singularities landmarks on the pathways of life / Christian de Duve.
| Author/creator | De Duve, Christian |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Building blocks -- Homochirality -- Protometabolism -- ATP -- Electrons and protons -- Thioesters -- RNA -- Proteins -- DNA -- Membranes -- Protonmotive force -- Protometabolism revisited -- The LUCA -- The first fork -- Eukaryotes -- Oxygen -- Endosymbionts -- Multicellulars -- Homo -- Evolution -- Final comments. |
| Review | "This brief but deep book presents a sophisticated consideration of the key steps or bottlenecks that constrain the path to the origin and evolution of life. Christian de Duve, a pioneer of modern cell biology and Nobel laureate, gives in this book a contemporary response to Erwin Schrodinger's tremendously influential What Is Life?, which 60 years ago influenced many of the pioneers of molecular biology. Christian de Duve offers shrewd insights on the conditions that may have first called forth life and surveys the entire history of life, using as landmarks the many remarkable singularities along the way, such as the single ancestry of all living beings, the universal genetic code, and the monophyletic origin of eukaryotes."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004054761 |
| ISBN | 9780521841955 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 052184195X (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521603010 (pb.) |
| ISBN | 0521603013 (pb.) |