TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrow,John D.
TI  - Fitness of the cosmos for life: biochemistry and fine-tuning 
T2  - Cambridge astrobiology
SN  - 9780511536557 (ebook)
AV  - QH327 .F548 2008
U1  - 576.839 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Exobiology
KW  - Biochemistry
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); The improbability of life; George M. Whitesides --; Locating "fitness" and L.J. Henderson; Everett Mendelsohn --; Revisiting The fitness of the environment; Owen Gingerich --; Is fine-tuning remarkable?; John F. Haught --; Complexity in context : the metaphysical implications of evolutionary theory; Edward T. Oakes --; Tuning fine-tuning; Ernan McMullin --; Fitness and the cosmic environment; Paul C.W. Davies --; The interconnections between cosmology and life; Mario Livio --; Chemistry and sensitivity; John D. Barrow --; Fitness of the cosmos for the origin and evolution of life : from biochemical fine-tuning to the Anthropic Principle; Julian Chela-Flores --; How biofriendly is the universe?; Christian de Duve --; Tuning into the frequencies of life : a roar of static or a precise signal?; Simon Conway Morris --; Life on Earth : the role of proteins; Jayanath R. Banavar and Amos Maritan --; Protein-based life as an emergent property of matter : the nature and biological fitness of the protein folds; Michael J. Denton --; Could an intelligent alien predict Earth's biochemistry?; Stephen J. Freeland --; Would Venus evolve on Mars? : bioenergetic constraints, allometric trends, and the evolution of life-history invariants; Jeffrey P. Schloss --; Creating a perspective for comparing; Albert Eschenmoser --; Fine-tuning and interstellar chemistry; William Klemperer --; Framing the question of fine-tuning for intermediary metabolism; Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz --; Coarse-tuning in the origin of life?; Guy Ourisson --; Plausible lipid-like peptides : prebiotic molecular self-assembly in water; Shuguang Zhang --; Evolution revisited by inorganic chemists; R.J.P. Williams and J.J.R. Fraústo da Silva
N2  - This highly interdisciplinary 2007 book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitive features of biochemistry and astrobiology. Celebrating the classic 1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment for Life, this book looks at the delicate balance between chemistry and the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complex chemical networks and structures to exist. It will appeal to a broad range of scientists, academics, and others interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511536557
ER  -