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    A brief history of creation : science and the search for the origin of life / Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II.

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    • Title:A brief history of creation : science and the search for the origin of life / Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II.
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    • Variant Title:Science and the search for the origin of life
    • Author/Creator:Mesler, Bill, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Cleaves, H. James, II, author.
    • Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016]
      ©2016

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Life--Origin--Research--History.
      Life--Origin--Philosophy--History.
      Biology--History.
      Science--History.
    • Medical Subjects: Biology--history.
      Science--history.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:An essential history of Western scientific studies into the origins of life examines historical discoveries in the contexts of philosophical debates, political change, and evolving understandings about the complexities of biology.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.
    • ISBN:9780393083552 hardcover
      0393083551 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. By The Action Of Your Sun
      Ancients ask where life comes from
      Anaximander explains the natural world
      Aristotle writes of "spontaneous generation"
      2. Provando E Riprovando
      Francesco Redi and the scientific method
      Van Helmont's recipe for mice
      "All life comes from an egg"
      3. Eye Of A Gnat
      Enlightenment transforms science
      Hooke pens Micrographia
      Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the microscopic world
      4. Laboratory Of The Atheists
      Voltaire subscribes to intelligent design
      Atheists seize upon the origin of life
      Buffon observes "reproduction"
      5. Vital Force
      Andrew Crosse's "extraordinary experiment"
      Vitalism and "imponderable fluids"
      Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation captivates Britain
      6. Breathed By The Creator Into A Few Forms Or One
      Beagle sets sail for the Galapagos
      Origin of Species wins converts
      Charles Darwin imagines a "warm little pond"
      7. Pleasant, Though They Be Deceitful Dreams
      Pasteur dispels the notion of a "useless God"
      Thomas Huxley grooms a new generation
      germ theory of disease versus spontaneous generation
      8. No Vestige Of A Beginning
      Earth grows ever older
      J. B. S. Haldane imagines a "half-living" thing
      Alexander Oparin reimagines an ancient planet
      9. Laboratory Earth
      Stanley Miller creates the precursors for life
      Scientists flock to exobiology
      NASA enters the origin-of-life game
      10. Nucleic Acid Monopoly
      Apollo 11 looks for clues on the moon
      Sidney Fox and his proteinoid microspheres
      Crick and Watson discover "the secret of life"
      11. Life Everywhere
      enigmatic Martian rock
      Panspermia revisited
      Life in meteorites?
      12. One Primordial Form
      last universal common ancestor
      Woesian revolution
      Scientists look to undersea vents
      13. Cell Is Born
      birth of the RNA world
      Genetic engineering opens doors
      new genesis?.
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