Origins of Life: The Central Concepts [Paperback]

David W. Deamer (Author), D. W. Deamer (Other Contributor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 431 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867201819
• ISBN-13: 978-0867201819
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,018,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dave Deamer was born in Santa Monica California in 1939. His family moved to Ohio in 1950, where he attended Westerville High School. Deamer completed undergraduate studies in chemistry at Duke University in 1961, and a Ph.D. at the Ohio State University School of Medicine. After post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley, Deamer became a faculty member at UC Davis in 1967, then moved to UC Santa Cruz in 1994. He has been a visiting professor at Bristol University, Australian National University as a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Deamer's primary research interests include nanopore sequencing of DNA and the origin of cellular life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Early life on earth, November 26, 2000

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This review is from: Origins of Life: The Central Concepts (Paperback)

This book contains a number of very useful articles (many reprints) to persons interested in the evolution of early life. For example, there is T.R. Cech's article, A Model for the RNA-catalyzed Replication of RNA, shwoing that RNA enzymes exist which can act as poly-C polymerases. Based on the existence of such enzymes, this article hypothesizes prebiotic template-dependent synthesis of RNA by an RNA polymerase itself made of RNA.