Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth - Hardcover

Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 332 pages. This is popular science writing in top style: witty, informed, provocative. N ew York University chemistry professor Shapiro, DNA expert and co-author (with G erald Feinberg) of Life Beyond Earth, expounds on the notion that modern theorie s of life's origin are inadequate and in a sense tend to become mythologies. The n, with a sobriety leavened by his consistent summoning of an imagined champion of true science called The Skeptic, he examines and rejects genesis theories S ir Fred Hoyle's planetary dust suggestions; the life-from-clay explanations; t he Urey-Miller argument favored by scientists, that life began when lightning st irred earth's prebiotic soups; and so on, including even so-called Scientific Creationism. In the end, Shapiro proves surprisingly sanguine that science will yet find the answer, offering his own bold reversal of molecular science's cen tral dogma, that nucleic acids were the first genes. In the beginning was prote in. Protein begat RNA and then both begat DNA. Artikel-Nr. 4759z

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