{"product_id":"life-3","title":"Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamining how life came to be on Earth, this book asks the question: How could life have emerged from a catastrophic event? Primordial Earth was rendered into a blank canvas when it was struck by a Mars-sized object. The discussion in this book illustrates the importance of the high-temperature, chaotic system created in reaction and offers a consequential explanation of how chiral selection of amino acids occurred in the first steps to life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnlike much of the discussion in origin-of-life literature that favours an RNA-first world, chemistry researcher Peter D. Clark proposes a sequence of events based on their probability: namely, conversion of simple gases into amino acids, their simultaneous chiral selection and polymerization to L-enriched polypeptides, and then synthesis of RNA. Consequential evolution of this chemical system would then lead to the emergence of a codependent polypeptide–RNA chemical landscape and a rudimentary genetic code. Clark suggests that the important step of encapsulating replicating assemblies in a rudimentary cell membrane facilitated phosphate re-cycle – enabling development of life’s universal energy generation machinery, the proton motive force.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying these hypotheses to the potential for the development of life elsewhere in the solar system, this book demonstrates the possibility of simple life throughout the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503860785525,"sku":"9781049804910","price":53.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781049804910.jpg?v=1786867638","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/life-3","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}