TY - BOOK AU - Deamer,D.W. TI - First life: Discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began SN - 9780520258327 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Exobiology KW - Life KW - Origin KW - Evolution (Biology) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index; 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 ER -