Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Origin of Life and the First Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, Barcelona, June 25–28, 1973, Volume I: Invited Papers and Volume II: Contributed Papers

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This publication, in two volumes, includes most of the scientific papers presented at the first meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (lSSOL), held on June 25-28, 1973 in Barcelona, Spain. The first volume contains the invited articles and the second volume the contributed papers, which also appear in the 1974 and 1975 issues, respectively, of the new journal Origins of Life, published by D. Reidel. A relatively large number of meetings on the subject of the origin of life have been held in different places since 1957. In terms of its organization, scope, and number and nationality of participants, the Conference celebrated last year in Barcelona closely followed the three international conferences held earlier in Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1957, Wakulla Springs, U.S.A., 1963, and Pont-a-Mousson, France, 1970. For this reason the first ISSOL meeting was also named the 4th International Conference on the Origin of Life.
 

Contents

Choices and Necessities
56
HOLLAND Aspects of the Geologic History of Seawater
86
MILLER The Atmosphere of the Primitive Earth and the Prebio
137
J P FERRIS J D WOS T J RYAN A P LOBO and D B donner Biomole
153
MELLA PAECHTHOROWITZ The Possible Role of Clays in Prebiotic
173
CARL SAXINGER and CYRIL PONNAMPERUMA Interactions Between
189
T N EVREINOVA T W MAMONTOVA V N KARNAUHOV S B STEPHANOV
201
OPARINA Hypothetic Scheme for Evolution of Probionts 223
227
ALEXANDER RICHTransfer RNA and the Translation Apparatus in
331
G W R WALKER Genetics and the Origin of the Genetic Code
351
Evolu
363
HERRICK BALTSCHEFFSKY A New Hypothesis for the Evolution of Biologi
387
A A KRASNOVSKY Pathways of Chemical Evolution of Photosynthesis
397
FUJIO EGAMI Inorganic Types of Fermentation and Anaerobic Respirations
405
K BIEMANNTest Results on the Viking Gas ChromatographMass Spectro
417
HAROLD P KLEIN Automated LifeDetection Experiments for the Viking
431

KLAUS DOSE Chemical and Catalytical Properties of Thermal Polymers
239
R BUVET L LE PORT and F STOETZEL PreEnzymic Origin of Metabolic
253
W THIEMANN and W DARGE Experimental Attempts for the Study of
263
BIERMANN and G DIERCKSEN On the Chemical Constitution of Cometary
295
O DAYHOFF W C BARKER and P J MCLAUGHLIN Inferences from
310
DONALD A FLORY JOHN ORÓ and PAUL V FENNESSEY Organic Con
442
A MITZ Model Systems for Life Processes on Mars
457
W F LIBBYLife on Jupiter?
483
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
507
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