TEHRAN- Qoqnoos Publishing House has published the Persian translation of “Origin of Life” by David W. Deamer.

Eghbal Jasemi has translated the book that was originally published in 2020 by Oxford University Press under the title “Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know,” Mehr reported.

Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is created on habitable planets like Earth and Mars. Scientists have responded to a renewed public interest in the origin of life with research, but many questions remain unanswered in the broader conversation. Other questions can be answered by the laws of chemistry and physics, but questions surrounding the origin of life are best answered by reasonable extrapolations of what scientists know from observing the Earth and its solar system. 

“Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know” is a comprehensive scientific guide on the origin of life. David W. Deamer sets out to answer the top 40 questions about the origin of life, including: Where do the atoms of life come from? How old is Earth? What was the Earth like before life originated? Where does water come from? and how evolution began? 

After he provides the informational answer for each question, there is a follow-up: How do we know? This question expands the horizon of the whole book and provides scientific reasoning and explanations for hypotheses surrounding the origin of life. How scientists come to their conclusions and why we can trust these answers is an important question, and Deamer provides answers to each big question surrounding the origin of life, from what it is to why we should be curious.   

David Wilson Deamer, 85, is an American biologist and Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has made significant contributions to the field of membrane biophysics. His work led to a novel method of DNA sequencing and a more complete understanding of the role of membranes in the origin of life.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985, which supported research at the Australian National University in Canberra to investigate organic compounds in the Murchison meteorite. He served as the president of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life from 2013 to 2014.

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