Protocells and the Origin of Life
How life can emerge in a lifeless environment is one of the major open scientific challenges. This book pays particular attention to self-organization phenomena that might have led to the appearance of the first protocells, i.e. cell-like structures, much simpler than present-day cells, endowed with...
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| Col·lecció: | The Frontiers Collection,
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91763-9 |
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Taula de continguts:
- Setting the stage
- An overview of our main conceptual tool
- A bird’s eye view on cells
- Origins
- Spontaneous organization
- Self-organization in chemical reactions
- Collective self-replication in chemical reactions
- Protocells and synchronization
- Polymers in protocells
- Conclusions.