Life from an RNA world:the ancestor within

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yarus Michael 1940-
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
RNA
Carrier Form: x, 198 p.: ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674060715 (pbk.)
0674050754 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674060717 (pbk.)
Index Number: Q522
CLC: Q522
Call Number: Q522/Y29
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to your ancestor -- Before we begin : a voluntary chapter -- Framing the problem : the buffalo and the bacterium -- The big tree : no jackalopes please -- A dance of atoms -- Allegro agitato : the origin of life -- The winds that blow through the starry ways -- Tornados in a junkyard -- Between genomes and creatures ...