Some holdings on Origins of Life (extracts from an Annie keyword
search: 'origin* life', limited to items published after 1990):
Record 1 of 23
CALL # QB54 .D38 1995.
AUTHOR Davies, P. C. W.
TITLE Are we alone? : philosophical implications of the discovery of
extraterrestrial life / Paul Davies.
IMPRINT New York : BasicBooks, 1995.
Record 2 of 23
CALL # QH325 .K388 1995.
AUTHOR Kauffman, Stuart A.
TITLE At home in the universe : the search for laws of self-
organization and complexity / Stuart Kauffman.
IMPRINT New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Record 3 of 23
CALL # QH325 .M778 1992.
AUTHOR Morowitz, Harold J.
TITLE Beginnings of cellular life : metabolism recapitulates
biogenesis / Harold J. Morowitz.
IMPRINT New Haven : Yale University Press, c1992.
Record 4 of 23
CALL # QH325 .D4 1991.
AUTHOR De Duve, Christian.
TITLE Blueprint for a cell : the nature and origin of life / Christian
de Duve.
IMPRINT Burlington, N.C. : N. Patterson, 1991.
Record 5 of 23
CALL # FOLIO QH325 .B65 1993.
TITLE The book of life / general editor, Stephen Jay Gould ;
contributing scientists and illustrators, Peter Andrews, John
Barber, Michael Benton, Marianne Collins, Christine Janis, Ely
Kish, Akio Morishima, J. John Sepkoski Jr., Christopher
Stringer, Jean-Paul Tibbles.
IMPRINT New York : W.W. Norton, 1993.
CONTENTS Reconstructing (and deconstructing) the past / Stephen Jay Gould -
- Life and time / Michael Benton -- Foundations: life in the
ocean / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- The rise of the fishes /
Michael Benton -- Four feet on the ground / Michael Benton --
Dinosaur summer / Michael Benton -- Victors by default /
Christine Janis -- The primates' progress / Peter Andrews and
Christopher Stringer.
Record 6 of 23
CALL # QH438.4.M3 C35 1995.
TITLE Calculating the secrets of life : applications of the
mathematical sciences in molecular biology / Eric S. Lander and
Michael S. Waterman, editors.
IMPRINT Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.
CONTENTS The secrets of life : a mathematician's introduction to molecular
biology / Eric S. Lander and Michael S. Waterman -- Mapping
heredity : using probabilistic models and algorithms to map
genes and genomes / Eric S. Lander -- Seeing conserved signals :
using algorithms to detect similarities between biosequences /
Eugene W. Myers -- Hearing distant echoes : using extremal
statistics to probe evolutionary origins / Michael S. Waterman -
- Calibrating the clock : using stochastic processes to measure
the rate of evolution / Simon Tavare -- Winding the double
helix : using geometry, topology, and mechanics of DNA / James
H. White -- Unwinding the double helix : using differential
mechanics to probe conformational changes in DNA / Craig J.
Benham -- Lifting the curtain : using topology to probe the
hidden action of enzymes / DeWitt Sumners -- Folding the
sheets : using computational methods to predict the structure
of proteins / Fred E. Cohen.
Record 7 of 23
CALL # QH359 .C75 1994.
TITLE Creative evolution?! / edited by John H. Campbell, J. William
Schopf.
IMPRINT Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publisher, c1994.
Record 8 of 23
CALL # BS651 .C6926 1994.
TITLE The Creation hypothesis : scientific evidence for an intelligent
designer / J.P. Moreland, editor ; foreword by Phillip E.
Johnson.
IMPRINT Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1994.
CONTENTS Theistic science & methodological naturalism / by J.P. Moreland --
The methodological equivalence of design & descent / by Stephen
C. Meyer -- On the very possibility of intelligent design / by
William A. Dembski -- Astronomical evidences for a personal,
transcendent God / by Hugh Ross -- Information & the origin of
life / by Walter L. Bradley & Charles B. Thaxton -- The origin
of life's major groups / by Kurt P. Wise -- Origin of the human
language capacity : in whose image? / by John W. Oller, Jr. &
John L. Omdahl -- Appendix: Rational inquiry & the force of
scientific data : are new horizons emerging? / by John
Ankerberg & John Weldon.
Record 9 of 23
CALL # QH518.5 .F46 1995.
AUTHOR Fenchel, Tom.
TITLE Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds / Tom Fenchel, Bland J.
Finlay.
IMPRINT Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
CONTENTS [1] Anaerobic environments : Causes and consequences of
anaerobiosis -- Anaerobic habitats through geological time --
Contemporary anaerobic habitats. [2] Anaerobic prokaryotes:
competition and syntrophy -- Anaerobic metabolism:
fermentation -- Anaerobic metabolism: phototrophy, respiration
and methanogenesis -- Syntrophy -- The evolution of prokaryote
energy metabolism. [3] Anaerobic eukaryotes: phagotrophy and
food chains -- The origin of eukaryotes -- Phylogeny of
anaerobic eukaryotes -- Energy metabolism and oxygen toxicity --
Symbiosis with prokaryotes: intracellular syntrophy --
Anaerobic metazoa. [4] The structure of anaerobic communities :
Spatial and temporal distributions of organisms and processes --
Anaerobic protozoan biota -- The role of phagotrophs in
anaerobic communities. [5] Interactions with the oxic world :
Life at the oxic-anoxic boundary -- The biogeochemical
significance of anaerobic life -- The ecological and
evolutionary consequences of oxygen in the biosphere.
Record 10 of 23
CALL # QH366.2 .E59 1992.
TITLE Environmental evolution : effects of the origin and evolution of
life on planet earth / edited by Lynn Margulis and Lorraine
Olendzenski.
IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992.
CONTENTS Comparison of planetary atmospheres : Mars, Venus, and Earth /
Michael McElroy -- Cosmochemical evolution and the origins of
life / Cyril Ponnamperuma -- Origin of life : polymers before
monomers? / Clifford Matthews -- Origins of membrane structure /
David Deamer -- Origins of life : the historical development of
recent theories / Antonio Lazcano -- The antiquity of life /
Elso S. Barghoorn -- Evidence of earliest life / Paul Strother -
- Microbial mats of Abu Dhabi ; Stromatolites of Shark Bay /
Stjepko Golubic -- Symbiosis theory : cells as microbial
communities ; Spirochetes and the origin of Undulipodia / Lynn
Margulis -- Life in the late proterozoic / Andrew Knoll --
Continental drift and plate tectonics / Raymond Siever.
Chemical signals from plants and phanerozoic evolution / Tony
Swain. Questions and answers / Robert Buchsbaum -- Mammalian
evolution : karyotypic fission theory / Neil Todd -- The Gaia
hypothesis / James E. Lovelock.
Record 11 of 23
CALL # QH325 .E964 1991.
TITLE Evolution of life : fossils, molecules, and culture / S. Osawa, T.
Honjo, (eds.)
IMPRINT Tokyo ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1991.
CONTENTS Fossils and evolution / P.D. Gingerich -- Biological extinction
in terms of overadaptation / T. Hamada -- Revolutions and
colonizations in the history of life / B. Halstead -- The
genomic tag model for the origin of protein synthesis : further
evidence from the molecular fossil record / A.M. Weiner and N.
Maizels -- Neutral evolution / M. Kimura -- Recent evidence for
evolution of the genetic code / T.H. Jukes and S. Osawa -- The
grammatical rule of DNA language : messages in palindromic
verses / S. Ohno -- Module organization in proteins and exon
shuffling / M. Go -- Molecular evolution and the immunoglobulin
gene superfamily / L. Hood and T. Hunkapiller.
Evolution of the multigene family : a case of dynamically
evolving genes at major histocompatibility complex / T. Ohta --
Evolution of a urea cycle enzyme to [delta]-crystallin / M.
Mori ... [et al.] -- Evolution of repetitive sequences / N.
Okada ... [et al.] -- Evolution of organellar genomes / K.
Ohyama ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms of speciation : a review /
W.B. Provine -- Comparing life histories / P.H. Harvey -- The
seething genetics of health and the evolution of sex / W.D.
Hamilton -- On the evolution of reproductive isolation and the
origin of species / F.J. Ayala -- The evolution of cells / T.
Cavalier-Smith -- Symbiosis in evolution : origins of cell
motility / L. Margulis.
Archaebacteria vs metabacteria : phylogenetic tree of organisms
indicated by comparison of 5S ribosomal RNA sequences / H.
Hori ... [et al.] -- Evolution of archaebacteria : phylogenetic
relationships among archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes /
T. Miyata ... [et al.] -- Early biochemical evolution :
speculations on the biochemistry of primitive life / T. Oshima -
- Man, culture, and environment / P.V. Tobias -- The origin of
the genus Homo / A. Walker -- Sequence evolution of
mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees : control region
and a protein-coding region / T.D. Kocher and A.C. Wilson --
Evolutionary relationships of human populations at the
molecular level / M. Nei and T. Ota -- Human genome and human
evolution / S. Ueda.
Some theoretical aspects of the origin of cultural transmission /
K. Aoki -- Summary and concluding remarks / S. Brenner.
Record 12 of 23
CALL # QH325 .R57 1991.
AUTHOR Rosen, Robert, 1934-
TITLE Life itself : a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin,
and fabrication of life / Robert Rosen.
IMPRINT New York : Columbia University Press, 1991.
Record 13 of 23
CALL # QH325 .N56 1991.
AUTHOR Nisbet, E. G.
TITLE Living earth : a short history of life and its home / E.G. Nisbet.
IMPRINT London, UK ; New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Academic, 1991.
Record 14 of 23
CALL # QH359 .M35 1992.
TITLE Major events in the history of life / edited by J. William Schopf.
IMPRINT Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c1992.
Record 15 of 23
CALL # QB641 .H32 1991.
AUTHOR Hansson, Anders, 1957-
TITLE Mars and the development of life / Anders Hansson.
IMPRINT New York : E. Horwood, 1991.
Record 16 of 23
CALL # QH325 .S65 1994.
AUTHOR Society of General Physiologists. Symposium (47th : 1993 : Woods
Hole, Mass.)
TITLE Molecular evolution of physiological processes : Society of
General Physiologists, 47h Annual Symposium / edited by Douglas
M. Fambrough ; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, 8-11 September, 1993.
IMPRINT New York : Rockefeller University Press, c1994.
CONTENTS Molecular clocks are not as bad as you think / Walter M. Fitch,
Francisco J. Ayala -- Reconstructing the history of
evolutionary processes using maximum likeihood / Michael J.
Sanderson -- Itrons, the broken transposons / Andrew J. Roger,
Patrick J. Keeling, and W. Ford Doolittle -- Monophyletic
origin of animals ... / Patricia O. Wainright, David J.
Patterson and Mitchell L. Sogin -- To tree the truth ... /
David M. Hills and John P. Huelsenbeck -- Transposable elements
and the evolution of heterochromatin / Allan Spradling -- Gene
conversion and the evolution of gene families in mammals / John
C. Schimenti -- Functional polymorphism in class I major
histocompatibility complex genes / Peter Parham -- The
generation of protein isoform diversity by alternative RNA
splicing / David M. Helfman -- Prolifins, ancient actin binding
proteins with highly divergent primary structures / Thomas D.
Pollard, Stephen Quirk -- The evolution of the chicken
sarcomeric myosin heavy chain multigene family / Everett
Brandman, [et al.] -- Molecular evolution of the myosin
syuperfamily ... / Holly V. Goodson.
Diversity of myosin-based motility; multiple genes and functions /
Alison Weiss, D.C. Ghislaine Mayer, and Leslie Leinwand -- The
actin protein superfamily / Christine Fyrberg, [et al.] -- Ion
channel of microbes / Yoshiro Saimi, [et al.] -- Using sequence
homology to analyze the structure and function of voltage-gated
ion channels / H. Robert Guy and tewart R. Durell -- Molecular
evolution of K+ channels in primative eukaroytes / Timothy
Jegla and Lawrence Salkoff -- The connexins and their family
tree / Michael V.L. Bennett, Xin Zheng, and Mitchell Sogin --
Relationships of G-protein-coupled receptors ... / Meredithe L
Applebury -- Evolution of the G protein alpha subunit multigene
family / Thomas M. Wilke and Shozo Yokoyama -- Molecular
evolution of the calcium-transporting ATPases analyzed by the
maximum parisomony method / Yan Song and Douglas M. Fambrough.
Record 17 of 23
CALL # QH325 .O6919 1994.
TITLE Origins of life : the central concepts / [edited by] David W.
Deamer, Gail R. Fleischaker.
IMPRINT Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c1994.
Record 18 of 23
CALL # QH325 .K39 1993.
AUTHOR Kauffman, Stuart A.
TITLE The origins of order : self organization and selection in
evolution / Stuart A. Kauffman.
IMPRINT New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Record 20 of 22
CALL # QP406 .R677 1994.
AUTHOR Rowe, Glenn (Glenn W.)
TITLE Theoretical models in biology : the origin of life, the immune
system, and the brain / Glenn Rowe.
IMPRINT Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford
University Press, c1994.
CONTENTS Origin of life -- Molecular basis of life -- Molecular evolution
and quasi-species -- Stochastic processes -- Spin glass model
of the origin of life -- Origin of the genetic code --
Hypercycles -- Artificial life -- Immune system -- Bell's
model -- Adaptive walks -- Maturation of the immune system --
Symmetric immune network model -- Shape space network model --
AIDS -- Brain -- Neurons and synapses -- Memory -- McCulloch-
Pitts neural net -- Perceptrons -- Connectionism -- Attractor
neural networks -- Unsupervised learning -- Evolutionary
learning.
Differential equations -- Statistics primer -- Computer
simulation.
Record 21 of 22
CALL # QH325 .D42 1995.
AUTHOR De Duve, Christian.
TITLE Vital dust : life as a cosmic imperative / Christian de Duve.
IMPRINT New York : Basic Books, 1995.
Record 22 of 22
CALL # FOLIO QH325 .M298 1995.
AUTHOR Margulis, Lynn, 1938-
TITLE What is life? / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan ; foreword by
Niles Eldredge.
IMPRINT New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.