The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements
The Environment and Life's Chemistry
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 29 May 1997
- ISBN 9780198558422
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages672 pages
- Size 250x198x39 mm
- Weight 1536 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures, chemical structures, and tables 0
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Short description:
This important landmark book shows that the evolution of the species is related to the evolution of the environment and that the reverse is also true. The environment and life developed together. There is then an intriguing problem for the long-term future of life if man changes the environment - even if only of trace (Catalytic) elements.
MoreLong description:
The central thesis of The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements is that the inanimate environment and living organisms are intimately connected, and that the evolution of both has been interactive and interdependent: the environment and life developed together. The authors show that this can be explained in terms of the properties of the chemical elements and their compounds, especially as compounds have developed with time.
The first part of the book discusses the physical and chemical balance between ordered and disordered systems and then analyses organisation in both the animate and inanimate worlds. Appropriate thermodynamic and kinetic principles are given to support this analysis. The application of these principles to the development of both inorganic (geographical) and organic chemical systems is then described, providing a basis for understanding the evolution of life in terms of the interaction of both types of chemistry within ever more complex organisations.
The book concludes by examining the long-term consequences of man's selection and manipulation of chemicals for his own purposes which may have consequences for the long-term future of life from changes in the environment - not only due to bulk but also to trace element alterations.
Chemistry is a wonderful subject.The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements is a wonderful book ... The result is a tour de force, a major textbook of general chemistry ... remininscent of Pauling's The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
Nature
Table of Contents:
The development of man's ideas concerning nature
Order in chemical systems: Elements and their combinations
The balance between order and disorder
Phase equilibria
Equilibria in dilute solutions in water
Limited phases, fields and compartments
Evolution of kinetic control and of organisation
The evolution of inorganic chemicals on Earth
The evolution of organic compounds
Early biological chemistry: The uptake and incorporation of elements in anaerobic organisms
Early cellular organisation in anaerobes
The structure and chemistry of organisms after the advent of dioxygen
Organisation in advanced organisms
Man's selection of the chemical elements
Element cycles and their evolution
The evolving natural selection of the chemical elements and the senses
Index
