- Introduction to Your Ancestor
- 1. Before We Begin: A Voluntary Chapter
- 2. Framing the Problem: The Buffalo and the Bacterium
- 3. The Big Tree: No Jackalopes Please
- 4. A Dance of Atoms
- 5. Allegro Agitato: The Origin of Life
- 6. The Winds That Blow through the Starry Ways
- 7. Tornados in a Junkyard
- 8. Between Genomes and Creatures
- 9. A Thumbnail Molecular Biology
- 10. RNA Structure: A Tape with a Shape
- 11. Intimations of an RNA World
- 12. The Experimentally Impaired Sciences
- 13. Test Tube RNA Evolution: First Light
- 14. Selection Amplification: Interrogating RNA’s Possibilities
- 15. RNA Duplication: Replicase Activity in Real RNAs
- 16. RNA Capabilities and the Origins of Translation
- 17. The Quest for the Peptidyl Transferase
- 18. A Language Much Older Than Hieroglyphics: The Genetic Code
- 19. Assume a Spherical Cow: The Ribocyte
- 20. The Future of the RNA World
- Lexicon
- Index


Life from an RNA World
The Ancestor Within
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$23.00 • £18.95 • €20.50
ISBN 9780674060715
Publication Date: 03/18/2011