TOC: From the Dust of the Ground * Spontaneous Generation * Revival: Spontaneous Generation of Microorganisms * Louis Pasteur: Death Blow to Spontaneous Generation * Between Pasteur and Darwin * The Oparin- Haldane Hypothesis * An Era of Optimism * Evolution in a Test Tube * Manfred Eigen's Model * Crisis: Real or Fictitious * The RNA World * And Yet, Metabolism * The Emergence of Life: Neither by Chance nor by Design * "Life on Mars? So What?"
Iris Fry