by Pross, Addy
Luisi, Pier Luigi 99
Macaulay, Thomas 45
Malthus, Thomas 164
maximizing fitness 148
metabolism first 102, 106, 159
Miller, Stanley 93
molecular evolution 128
molecular replication 65–70, 77
Monod, Jacques 33, 36, 37, 51, 52, 108, 117, 176
mutation 78
natural selection 138, 149
Newton, Isaac 44–7 Noble, Denis 52
non-equilibrium thermodynamics 118
nucleotides 97
Oparin, Alexander 83, 93
Orgel, Leslie 96, 107
Otto, Sijbren 182
palaeobiologic record 88
panspermia 83
Pascal, Robert 169
pattern recognition 44
phylogenetic analysis 88
Popa, Radu 39
Popper, Karl 38, 52
prebiotic chemistry 92, 95
Prigogine, Ilya 117
Principle of Divergence 24, 171
prokarya 90
protein degradation 22
quasispecies 142
RNA 65–8, 78, 79, 102, 128–130, 132–5, 142, 143, 151
RNA-world 96, 104, 105
Ramakrishnan, Venkatraman 2
reduction 50–57 replication 72, 76, 79
replication first 102, 104, 105, 158, 159
ribosome 1
Rose, Erwin 22
Russian doll metaphor 80
Schrödinger, Erwin vii, 36
Schuster, Peter 98, 142, 143
scientific method 43
Second Law of Thermodynamics 6, 25, 59, 61, 79–81, 107, 152, 155, 156, 157, 163
self-replication 65–8
simplification 135, 167
Soai, Kenso 174
Spiegelman, Sol 65, 78, 127, 128, 135, 145
stability 71–5
Steitz, Thomas 2
Sutherland, John 97
systems biology 116
systems chemistry xii, 75, 76, 101, 123
Szostak, Jack 99
Tannenbaum, Emmanuel 156
thermodynamic stability 145
teleology 9, 33, 34
teleonomy 9–20, 37, 176
theory of life 42
tree of life 89–92
viruses 188
von Kiedrowski, Günter xii, 69
Wagner, Nathaniel 156
Weinberg, Steven 48, 53, 54, 137
Whitesides, George 82
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 48
Woese, Carl viii, 3, 51, 52, 89, 91, 112, 114, 185, 186
Yonath, Ada 2