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Creating the Molecules of Life discusses origins, including the Big Bang and the origin of the elements. With a complete presentation and explanation, this book provides evidence that the molecules of life are produced in outer space and how the SNAAP model purports to explain that origin. Extremophiles, which explain that evolution is robust enough to create life forms in a wide variety of conditions, are also presented. This book is suitable for those at the upper undergraduate level, with mathematics associated with coupling the nuclear spins to the molecular chirality. An accompanying appendix is provided to support mathematics.
Overall the book is an enjoyable read covering a wide range of scientific disciplines and provides an interesting and, debatably, the best explanation of why left-handed chirality exists in life on Earth.
Michael McCabe 2020 The Observatory Magazine
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Origin of the Lightest Elements
Chapter 3. Heavier Elements: The Chart of the Nuclides
Chapter 4. Creation and Detection of Molecules in the Interstellar Medium
Chapter 5. Amino Acids and Chirality
Chapter 6. Determining Molecular Properties by Quantum Molecular Calculations
Chapter 7. The SNAAP Model: Nature’s Way to Select Chiral Selectivity?
Chapter 8. Getting the amino acids into the Interstellar Medium
Chapter 9. Other Ways Scientists Have Explained Amino Acid Chirality
Chapter 10. Amino Acid Chirality and the Origin of Life
Appendix
Glossary