Summary: Summary of Alexander Oparin's "The Origin of Life" (ePub)

Oparin published the first scientific theory on the origin of life in 1.924, and this book and the theory it proposes, has been , and is to this day, recognized as the founding stone of evolutionary biology, the science which studies the evolution of animated matter, taht is living matter, from inert matter. Oparin was the founder and first Chairman of the International Association for the Study of the Origin of Life, and convened its first meeting in Moscow in 1.955 The book I read and summarized, is a spanish version, published under the Soviet Union, so that the author duly quotes Lenin, and Stalin. (I guess a standard requirement in the Russia of those days), and places his theory within the framework of the "dialectic materialism", a philosophical stance held by " progressive thinkers",to defend themselves from the "reactionary and creationary dogmas of western imperialism". In this short book ,(110 pages), Oparin sees animated matter as the end result of the evolution of inert matter. This evolution starts with small inorganic molecules ( such as water and carbon dioxide, each made up of thrre atoms) and ends with huge molecules made up of thousands of atoms strung together by carbon and hydrogen atoms; molecules we call today "organic molecules", as practically all living organisms are made up of such molecules. Groups of these molecules, inmersed in water , teamed up and eventually acquired a structural organization which depended on their capacity to capture and use energy from their surroundings. Life began when these organized groups of molecules, having acquired the capacity to capture and use energy, so as to construct their internal structures, managed to replicate themselves, thus acquiring the faculty which we call LIFE, and becoming the first cells. Many of these primitive cells disappeared, but finally one prevailed and in a few centuries the earth's seas were teeming with these primitive cells, whose fundamental structure was, and remains, the

Introductory Comment2 SUMMARY3 Chapter 13 The Fight of Materialism against Idealism and Religion, over the Problem of the Origin of Life3 Chapter 25 Primitive Origin of the Simplest Oganic Substances; Hydrocarbons and their Derivatives5 Chapter 36 Origin of Primitive Proteins6 Chapter 48 Origin of the Primitive Colloidal Formation8 Chapter 510 Organization of Living Protoplasm10 Chapter 611 Origin of Primitive Organisms11

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