The topic of chemical evolution and the origins of life is a primary focus of astrobiology, and is an essential part of understanding life’s origins on Earth and the potential for life beyond our ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes. This transformation laid the foundation for biological systems, ...

Processes and history : Introduction: the development of concepts in the study of human variation -- The genetic basis of evolution / Dobzhansky -- Charles Lyell / Eiseley -- Charles Darwin / Eiseley ...

A hot gas dissociates very quickly, on the order of microseconds. One might think we could neglect the speed of dissociation, then, and model the gas in an equilibrium state. However, many things ...