ISBN 1-493-93885-1 (1493938851) / From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth / Philippe Claeys, Purificatión López- Garcia, Muriel Gargaud, Purificación López-García, Hervé Martin, Thierry Montmerle, Robert Pascal, Jacques Reisse / buchspektrum.de

This review gathers astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? The ultimate goal is to probe an even more demanding question: is life universal? This not-so linear account highlights problems, gaps, and controversies. Discussion covers the formation of the solar system; the building of a habitable planet; prebiotic chemistry, biochemistry, and the emergence of life; the early Earth environment, and much more.

From the Arrow of Time to the Arrow of Life.- Dating Methods and Corresponding Chronometers in Astrobiology.- Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years.- Building of a Habitable Planet.- Prebiotic Chemistry - Biochemistry - Emergence of Life (4.4-2 Ga).- Environmental Context.- Ancient Fossil Record and Early Evolution (ca. 3.8 to 0.5 Ga).- A Synthetic Interdisciplinary "Chronological Frieze": an Attempt.- Life On Earth... And Elsewhere?.

Jacques Reisse: Professor of organic chemistry and physical chemistry- Université Libre de Bruxelles

Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium

Research activity: stereochemistry, study of intermolecular interactions in liquid phase, nuclear magnetic resonance, cosmochemistry, sonochemistry

Neuerscheinungen 2016

Philippe Claeys, Purificatión López- Garcia, Muriel Gargaud, Purificación López-García, Hervé Martin, Thierry Montmerle, Robert Pascal, Jacques Reisse (Beteiligte)

From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth