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This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of
Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in
experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works
appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works
represent the attempt to deal experimentally with the issue of an
autotrophic origin of life, a possibility that was widely accepted
prior to Alexander I. Oparin's ideas regarding the possibility of
organic synthesis and the origin of life in an early Earth
environment. An active promoter of Darwinian ideas in Latin
America, Herrera was also among the first 20th century researchers
to attempt to "create life in a test tube." This collection shows
the remarkable prescience of researchers in Mexico with regards to
laboratory approaches to the problem of the origin of life. It also
includes a modern commentary by researchers actively engaged in
research in prebiotic evolution and the origins of life, and deeply
concerned with the historical development of ideas in these fields.
The list includes H. James Cleaves, Antonio Lazcano, Alicia
Negron-Gonzalez and Juli Pereto, who discuss in detail the
relevance of Herrera's ideas to modern theory and their historical
context. The book will expose modern readers and researchers to
currents of thinking that have been lost, largely to time and
language inaccessibility, of a seminal early theoretical biologist.
This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of
Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in
experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works
appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works
represent the attempt to deal experimentally with the issue of an
autotrophic origin of life, a possibility that was widely accepted
prior to Alexander I. Oparin's ideas regarding the possibility of
organic synthesis and the origin of life in an early Earth
environment. An active promoter of Darwinian ideas in Latin
America, Herrera was also among the first 20th century researchers
to attempt to "create life in a test tube." This collection shows
the remarkable prescience of researchers in Mexico with regards to
laboratory approaches to the problem of the origin of life. It also
includes a modern commentary by researchers actively engaged in
research in prebiotic evolution and the origins of life, and deeply
concerned with the historical development of ideas in these fields.
The list includes H. James Cleaves, Antonio Lazcano, Alicia
Negron-Gonzalez and Juli Pereto, who discuss in detail the
relevance of Herrera's ideas to modern theory and their historical
context. The book will expose modern readers and researchers to
currents of thinking that have been lost, largely to time and
language inaccessibility, of a seminal early theoretical biologist.
Scientists elucidate the astounding collective sensory capacity of
Earth and its evolution through time. Chimeras and Consciousness
begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective
sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of
fields-including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science,
family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology-trace
the emergence and evolution of consciousness. Complex behaviors and
the social imperatives of bacteria and other life forms during
3,000 million years of Earth history gave rise to mammalian
cognition. Awareness and sensation led to astounding activities;
millions of species incessantly interacted to form our planet's
complex conscious system. Our planetmates, all of them conscious to
some degree, were joined only recently by us, the aggressive modern
humans. From social bacteria to urban citizens, all living beings
participate in community life. Nested inside families within
communities inside ecosystems, each metabolizes, takes in matter,
expends energy, and excretes. Each of the members of our own and
other species, in groups with incessantly shifting alliances,
receives and processes information. Mergers of radically different
life forms with myriad purposes-the "chimeras" of the
title-underlie dramatic metamorphosis and other positive
evolutionary change. Since early bacteria avoided, produced, and
eventually used oxygen, Earth's sensory systems have expanded and
complexified. The provocative essays in this book, going far beyond
science but undergirded by the finest science, serve to put
sensitive, sensible life in its cosmic context.
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