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1. The Dynamic Earth: A Recent Concept Necessary for the Study of the Origin of Life

Author : Hiromoto Nakazawa

Published in: Darwinian Evolution of Molecules

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

An understanding of the dynamic Earth is crucial from the point of view of the physical inevitability and historical reality of the problem of the origin of life. Why has life occurred then evolved? How, when, and where? In Chapter 1, recent views of the dynamic Earth are outlined historically, beginning with the epoch-making proposal of continental drift theory. After the notion of immovable continents had been dispelled in the latter half of the twentieth century, the concept of the dynamic Earth rapidly emerged.

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Title: The Dynamic Earth: A Recent Concept Necessary for the Study of the Origin of Life
Author: Hiromoto Nakazawa
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Darwinian Evolution of Molecules
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-8723-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-8724-0

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8724-0_1