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FITNESS OF THE COSMOS FOR LIFE Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning

This book is part of a two-part program focused on the broad theme of “biochemistry and fine-tuning.” Fitness of the Cosmos for Life began with a symposium held at Harvard University in October 20031 in honor of the 90th anniversary of the publication of Lawrence J. Henderson’s The Fitness of the Environment.2 The symposium was an interdisciplinary, exploratory research meeting of scientists and other scholars that served as a stimulus for the creative thinking process used in developing the content of this book. The chapters in this volume were developed following the symposium and take advantage of the rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas that occurred during. | CUUK916-BARROW September 8 2007 19 10 P1 FQF FGC P2 FQF 9780521871020agg.xml FITNESS OF THE COSMOS FOR LIFE Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitive features of biochemistry and astrobiology. Celebrating the classic 1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson The Fitness of the Environment this book looks anew at the delicate balance between chemistry and the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complex chemical networks and structures to exist. It will appeal to scientists academics and others working in a range of disciplines. John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project. He is the author of The Artful Universe Expanded Oxford University Press 2005 and The Infinite Book A Short Guide to the Boundless Timeless and Endless Cape 2005 as well as co-editor of Science and Ultimate Reality Quantum Theory Cosmology and Complexity Cambridge University Press 2004 . Simon Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Earth Sciences Department University of Cambridge. He is the author of Life s Solution Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe Cambridge University Press 2003 . Stephen J. Freeland is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research focuses on the evolution of the genetic code. Charles L. Harper Jr . is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist and serves as Senior Vice President of the John Templeton .