In this post, we will see the book The Origin of Life by A. I. Oparin.
About the book
This book discusses the ideas of origin of life on Earth. Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.
The book discusses the possible bio-chemical pathways, complex organic molecules, environmental conditions and geological factors for the origin and evolution of life. The book is a shortened version of his book The Origin of Life on Earth. On the whole, Oparin described a biochemical adventure marked by chemico-physics and natural selection, this latter working on microstructure. Oparin worked according to the canons of dialectic materialism applied to Nature by Friedrich Engels and did not give anything to divine and fantastic. In such context, proteins and enzymes were the dominant substances of life owing to their manifold activities
The book was translated from Russian was published in 1955 by Foreign Languages Publishing House. There are other translations as well notably by Dover published around the same time.
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