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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.
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