From Suns to Life A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth [Hardcover]

This review gathers astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? The ultimate goal is to probe an even more demanding question: is life universal? This not-so linear account highlights problems, gaps, and controversies. Discussion covers the formation of the solar system; the building of a habitable planet; prebiotic chemistry, biochemistry, and the emergence of life; the early Earth environment, and much more.

From the Arrow of Time to the Arrow of Life.- Dating Methods and Corresponding Chronometers in Astrobiology.- Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years.- Building of a Habitable Planet.- Prebiotic Chemistry  Biochemistry  Emergence of Life (4.4-2 Ga).- Environmental Context.- Ancient Fossil Record and Early Evolution (ca. 3.8 to 0.5 Ga).- A Synthetic Interdisciplinary Chronological Frieze: an Attempt.- Life On Earth... And Elsewhere?.

Jacques Reisse: Professor of organic chemistry and physical chemistry- Universit? Libre de Bruxelles

Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium

Research activity: stereochemistry, study of intermolecular interactions in liquid phase, nuclear magnetic resonance, cosmochemistry, sonochemistry

Antonio Lazcano, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico (UNAM) in Mexico City.

President of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

Research activity: origin and early evolution of life

He is the author of The Origin of Life, which has become a bestseller with over 600 thousand copies sold.

He is considered the foremost promoter of evolutionary biology and the study of the origins of life in Latin America. He has been member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Nanobiology, Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiologia, andlc·