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ocn902661358 |
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OCoLC |
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20180722221850.0 |
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151013t20162016nyua b 001 0 eng |
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2015024251 |
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DLC |
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rda |
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eng |
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931791866 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780393083552 |
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hardcover |
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0393083551 |
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hardcover |
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(OCoLC)902661358 |
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(OCoLC)931791866 |
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pcc |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
576.83 |
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M578 |
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NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mesler, Bill, |
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author. |
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291498 |
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| Title |
A brief history of creation : |
| Remainder of title |
science and the search for the origin of life / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II. |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, N.Y. : |
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2016] |
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©2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvii, 312 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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25 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
By the action of your sun. Ancients ask where life comes from ; Anaximander explains the natural world ; Aristotle writes of "spontaneous generation" -- Provando e riprovando. Francesco Redi and the scientific method ; Van Helmont's recipe for mice ; "All life comes from an egg" -- The eye of a gnat. The Enlightenment transforms science ; Hooke pens Micrographia ; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the microscopic world -- The laboratory of the atheists. Voltaire subscribes to intelligent design ; Atheists seize upon the origin of life ; Buffon observes "reproduction" -- A vital force. Andrew Crosse's "extraordinary experiment" ; Vitalism and "imponderable fluids" ; Vestiges of the natural history of creation captivates Britain -- Breathed by the creator into a few forms or one. The Beagle sets sail for the Galápagos ; The Origin of species wins converts ; Charles Darwin imagines a "warm little pond" -- Pleasant, though they be deceitful dreams. Pasteur dispels the notion of a "useless God" ; Thomas Huxley grooms a new generation ; The germ theory of disease versus spontaneous generation -- No vestige of a beginning. The earth grows ever older ; J.B.S. Haldane imagines a "half-living" thing ; Alexander Oparin reimagines an ancient planet -- A laboratory earth. Stanley Miller creates the precursors for life ; Scientists flock to exobiology ; NASA enters the origin-of-life game -- The nucleic acid monopoly. Apollo 11 looks for clues on the moon ; Sidney Fox and his proteinoid microspheres ; Crick and Watson discover "the secret of life" -- Life everywhere. An enigmatic Martian rock ; Panspermia revisited ; Life in meteorites? -- One primordial form. The last universal common ancestor ; The Woesian revolution ; Scientists look to undersea vents -- A cell is born. The birth of the RNA world ; Genetic engineering opens doors ; A new gensis? -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Recipes for life. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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An essential history of Western scientific studies into the origins of life examines historical discoveries in the contexts of philosophical debates, political change, and evolving understandings about the complexities of biology. |
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Life |
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Origin |
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Research |
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History. |
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291499 |
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Life |
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Origin |
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Philosophy |
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History. |
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291500 |
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Biology |
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History. |
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120339 |
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Science |
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History. |
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41200 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cleaves, H. James, |
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II, |
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author. |
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291501 |
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