Gadagkar, R (1999) "What Is Life?" - Reconsidered - A Review of - Origins of Life by Dyson,F., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1985). In: Resonance - journal of science education, 4 (2). pp. 88-90.
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Abstract
Origins of life by Freeman Dyson Cambridge University Press, 1985. The problem of the origin oflife is a very old one. While there have been some distinguished supporters for theories suggesting extra-terrestrial origin and subsequent transport of life to earth, the remaining scientific community has built up a progressively more convincing, if more complex, reconstruction of the possible events leading to the origin of life on primitive earth. As it happens so often, our present beliefs about the origin of life on earth go back to-Charles Darwin in whose inimitable style "But if (and oh, what a big if) we could coJ{ceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, -heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed."
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Resonance - journal of science education |
| Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Keywords: | Book review, Origins of life |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2021 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2021 10:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68158 |
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