von Melanie Beck ; Thomas Riedel ; Jutta Graue ; Jürgen Köster ; Nicole Kowalski ; C. S. Wu ; G. Wegener ; Y. Lipsewers ; Holger Freund ; Michael Ernst Böttcher
Molecular informants: a changing perspective of organic chemistry -- Looking to the rocks: immortal molecules and life's first vestiges -- From the moon to mars: the search for extraterrestrial life -- Black gold: an alchemist's guide to petroleum -- Deep sea mud: biomarker clues to climate history -- More molecules, more mud and the isotopic dimension: ancient environments -- Revealed -- Microbiologists (finally) climb on board -- Weird molecules, inconceivable microbes, and unlikely proxies: marine ecology -- Revised -- Molecular paleontology and biochemical evolution -- Early life revisited -- Thinking molecularly, anything goes: from mummies to oil spills, doubts to new -- Directions