Molecular Evolution -

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Sommaire:
Sidney W. Fox and Molecular Evolution.- History and Scope.- The Origin of Life Problem--A Brief Critique.- Origins.- Evolution of Levels of Evolution.- Space Exploration and the Origin of Life.- On Recognising Life.- Thermodynamic and Philosophical Considerations.- A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamical Analysis of the Origin of Life.- Thermodynamics of Self-Assembly: An Empirical Example Relating Entropy and Evolution.- The Evolutionary Paradox and Biological Stability.- Chance in Evolution--Some Philosophical Remarks.- Micromolecules.- The Sources of Phosphorus on the Primitive Earth--An Inquiry.- Abiogenic Formation of Porphin, Chlorin, and Bacteriochlorin.- An Investigation of the Possible Differential Radiolysis of Amino Acid Optical Isomers by 14C Betas.- Synthesis of Glutamic Acid by Cyanoethylation of N-Acylaminoacetonitriles in Liquid Ammonia.- Macromolecules.- Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Prebiotic Evolution.- Model Experiments on the Prebiological Formation of Protein.- On the Electrophoretic Behavior of Thermal Polymers of Amino Acids.- Stereo-Enriched Poly- ? -Amino Acids: Synthesis under Postulated Prebiotic Conditions.- Light Enhanced Decarboxylations by Proteinoids.- Synthesis and Conformational Studies of Poly-Acidic Amino Acids Containing Optically Active Side Chains.- A Mechanism for Polypeptide Synthesis on a Protein Template.- Myeloperoxidase, the Peroxidase of a Primitive Cell, Its Reaction with Fe and H2O2.- Dependence of Poly U-Directed Cell-Free System on Ratios of Divalent and Monovalent Cations.- Informational Biopolymer Structure in Early Living Forms.- Trypsinogen Activation Peptides: An Example of Molecular Epigenesis.- Solvent Effects on Enzymes: Implications for Extraterrestrial Life.- Protocells and Cells.- Protein-Lipid Films as Prototypes of Biological Membranes.- Modelling of Structural and Functional Unity on Coacervate Systems.- Coacervate Systems and Evolution of Matter on the Earth.- Conjugation of Proteinoid Microspheres: A Model of Primordial Recombination.- Hydrothermally Associated Organic Microspheres from S. W. Africa and Elsewhere.- Studies on an Extreme Thermophile, Flavobacterium thermophilum HB 8.- Evolutionary Significance of Amoeba-Flagellate Transformation.- Academic Aspects.- The Heterotroph Hypothesis and High School Biology.- The Place of the Origin of Life in the Undergraduate Curriculum.- Man and Evolution.- Some Social and Philosophical Implications of Progress on the Origin and Synthesis of Life.