New Insights into the Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth

对地球生命起源和进化的新见解

• 批准号: FT140100321
• 负责人: Dr David Wacey
• 金额: $ 49.58万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-30 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT140100321
• 关键词: New; Insights; into; Origin; Evolution

This project aims to provide new insights into the origin of life on Earth, life’s diversification through the Precambrian, and the co-evolution of life and early Earth environments. It will be discipline-leading in that it will take the study of early life to the sub-micrometre and hence sub-cellular level. This will facilitate new opportunities for identifying the types of life present during early Earth history, their metabolisms, cellular chemistry and interactions with their environment. This project aims to also provide new search engines and more robust assessment criteria for life on other planets, and help to resolve specific scientific controversies, for example, the validity of claims for cellular life from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks.

该项目旨在为地球上生命的起源，生命在前寒武纪的多样化以及生命和早期地球环境的共同进化提供新的见解。它将是学科领先的，因为它将把早期生命的研究带到亚微米，因此是亚细胞水平。这将为确定早期地球历史中存在的生命类型、其代谢、细胞化学及其与环境的相互作用提供新的机会。该项目还旨在为其他行星上的生命提供新的搜索引擎和更强大的评估标准，并帮助解决具体的科学争议，例如，35亿年前岩石中细胞生命的有效性。