Deamer, D. W. <br/><br/>
First life :  Discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began / 
David Deamer. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2011. 
 - ix, 271 p. :  ill. ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index. 
<br/><br/>A fireball over Australia ; Where did life begin? ; When did life begin? ; Carbon and the building blocks of life ; The handedness of life ; Energy and life's origins ; Self-assembly and emergence ; How to build a cell ; Achieving complexity ; Multiple strands of life ; Catalysts : life in the fast lane ; Copying life's blueprints ; How evolution begins ; A grand simulation of prebiotic earth ; Prospects for synthetic life. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520258327 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520258320 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Exobiology.<br/>Life--Origin.<br/>Evolution (Biology)