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This highly interdisciplinary 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.

Foreword: The improbability of life George M. Whitesides

Part I. The Fitness of 'Fitness' - Henderson in Context:

1. Locating 'fitness' and Lawrence J. Henderson Everett

Mendelsohn

2. Revisiting The Fitness of the Environment Owen Gingerich

3. Is fine-tuning remarkable? John F. Haught

4. Complexity in context: the metaphysical implications of

evolutionary theory Edward T. Oakes

5. Tuning fine-tuning Ernan Mcmullin

Part II. The Fitness of the Cosmic Environment:

6. Fitness and the cosmic environment Paul C. W. Davies

7. The interconnections between cosmology and life Mario

Livio

8. Chemistry and sensitivity John D. Barrow

9. Fitness of the cosmos for the origin and evolution of life: from

biochemical fine-tuning to the Anthropic Principle Julian

Chela-Flores

Part III. The Fitness of the Terrestrial Environment:

10. How biofriendly is the universe? Christian de Duve

11. Tuning into the frequencies of life: a roar of static or a

precise signal? Simon Conway Morris

12. Life on earth: the role of proteins Jayanth R. Banavar and Amos

Maritan

13. Protein-based life as an emergent property of matter: the

nature and biological fitness of the protein folds Michael J.

Denton

14. Could an intelligent alien predict earth's biochemistry?

Stephen J. Freeland

15. Would Venus evolve on Mars? Bioenergetic constraints,

allometric trends, and the evolution of life-history invariants

Jeffrey P. Schloss

Part IV. The Fitness of the Chemical Environment:

16. Creating a perspective for comparing Albert Eschenmoser

17. Fine-tuning and interstellar chemistry William Klemperer

18. Framing the question of fine-tuning for intermediary metabolism

Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz

19. Coarse-tuning the origin of life? Guy Ourisson

20. Plausible lipid-like peptides: prebiotic molecular

self-assembly in water Shuguang Zhang

21. Evolution revisited by inorganic chemists R. J. P. Williams and

J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva

Index

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