Overview
- Provides a broad overview of the origin and evolution of life on Earth from a chemical and biological perspective
- Combines prebiotic and organic chemistry, geochemistry, molecular biology and evolution, palaeobiology and microbiology
- Adresses graduate students and researchers in Earth, life and space sciences, requiring no detailed specialist knowledge
Part of the book series: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics (ASTROBIO)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book provides an overview of the topic as well as its state of the art for graduate students and newcomers to the field. It also serves as a reference for researchers in origins of life on Earth and beyond.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anna Neubeck is an associate professor in mineralogy, petrology and tectonics with focus on deep biosphere and isotope geochemistry and currently a fellow at the Swedish collegium for advanced study in Uppsala. She has more than 30 articles and is a board member of The Swedish space researcher organisation (SRS), SWAN (Swedish Astrobiology Network) and Geologins Dag. She works broadly with geochemistry and is an active participant in working groups such as PELE (PI, Planetary Analogs & Exobiology Lava Tube Expedition), Chemobrionics (working with pseudo fossils and biomorphs) and the H2020 funded biomineralization/enhanced bio-accelerated weathering project BAM! (Co-PI). She also has her own company, working with microbial colonisation of the deep subsurface. She has also got the Crafoord stipend from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on her work on caves in South Africa.
Sean McMahon is an astrobiologist. He is interested in the co-evolution of life and planetary environments across large spans of space and time. As a Chancellor’s Fellow (tenure-track) at the University of Edinburgh’s UK Centre for Astrobiology, his focus is on the search for traces of ancient life in rocks from Earth that resemble those from Mars. His work has been published in 30+ journal articles, and reported by a wide range of TV, radio, online and printed media. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Geological Society of London, a member of the Palaeontological Association and the Astrobiology Society of Britain, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Astrobiology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life
Editors: Anna Neubeck, Sean McMahon
Series Title: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81039-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81038-2Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81041-2Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81039-9Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1610-8957
Series E-ISSN: 1613-1851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrobiology, Organic Chemistry, Geochemistry, Microbiology, Biochemistry, general