Crystals, colloids, or molecules?: Early controversies about the origin of life and synthetic life

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 521-542

  Deichmann, Ute ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CULTURE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84875155643     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2012.0046     Document Type: Article

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