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Book Description: Cambridge University Press. Book Condition: New. pp. xii + 131 , Figures This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins. Bookseller Inventory # 7740179

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Book Description: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Softcover. Book Condition: New. NA (illustrator). First edition. NA. This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. Contents Preface Sources of quotations 1. Inquest 2. Messages, messages 3. Build your own E. coli 4. The inner machinery 5. A garden path? 6. Look more closely at the signposts 7. A clue in a Chinese box 8. Missing pieces 9. The trouble with molecules 10. Crystals 11. The clay-making machine 12. Gene-1 13. Evolving by direct action 14. Takeover 15. Summing-up: the seven clues Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Glossary Index. Printed Pages: 143. Bookseller Inventory # 7204

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Book Description: Cambridge, New Delhi. Paper back. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 007669

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Book Description: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, United Kingdom, 1990. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 216 x 138 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins of life in which the important issues are addressed pertinently, economically and with a happy recourse to creative analogies.' Nature '.a splendid story - and a much more convincing one than the molecular biologists can offer as an alternative. Cairns-Smith has argued his case before in the technical scientific literature, here he sets it out in a way from which anyone - even those whose chemistry and biology stopped at sixteen - can learn.' New Statesman. Bookseller Inventory # AAA9780521398282

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Book Description: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 2639090

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Book Description: Cambridge University Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story, A.G. Cairns-Smith, This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins of life in which the important issues are addressed pertinently, economically and with a happy recourse to creative analogies.' Nature '.a splendid story - and a much more convincing one than the molecular biologists can offer as an alternative. Cairns-Smith has argued his case before in the technical scientific literature, here he sets it out in a way from which anyone - even those whose chemistry and biology stopped at sixteen - can learn.' New Statesman. Bookseller Inventory # B9780521398282

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Book Description: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR, 1990. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New print on demand book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IH-9780521398282

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Book Description: Cambridge University Press, 1990. paperback. Book Condition: New. *** NEW COPY *** TITLE SHIPPED FROM UK *** Binding paperback This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on the earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features. Bookseller Inventory # 0521398282

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