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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

The origin of life.

Publication Details

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson & New York: World Publishing Company, 1967 CE.

An outstanding illustrated synthesis of the topics as they stood in 1967, including Chapter 2: "Notions of the origins of life in the past," summarizing prior theories. Appendix 1 publishes the English translation of Oparin's Proiskhozhedenie Zhizni (No. 7384) followed by Bernal's commentary, as well as Haldane's "The origin of life (No. 7467), followed by Bernal's commentary. 

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#7466
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9638
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-origin-of-life-1

Geographic Context

Publication places: London; New York