Antonio Eusebio Lazcano Araujo Reyes (born 1950) is a Mexican

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and

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of the School of Sciences at the

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.Resume of Antonio Lazcano at UNAM
(Last updated c. 2002) Retrieved December 2010 He has studied the origin and early

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of life for more than 35 years. Lazcano pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies focused on the study of prebiotic evolution and the emergence of life. He has been professor-in-residence or visiting scientist in France, Spain, Cuba, Switzerland, Russia, and the United States. He has written several books in Spanish, including ''The Origin of Life'' (1984) which became a best-seller with more than 600,000 sold copies.In addition, he has been a member of several advisory and review boards of scientific organizations, such as

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, where he was a member of the

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He served as president of the

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, for two terms, and is also the first Latin American scientist to occupy this position. A great honor, for

Alexander Oparin Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (russian: Александр Иванович Опарин; – April 21, 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book ''The Origin of Life''. He also studied the b ...

, Stanley L. Miller and J. William Schopf, were also presidents of ISSOL. Lazcano has devoted considerable efforts to promote

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and teaching. He also promotes the study of

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and the origins of life, all over the world.

Bibliography

* Lazcano Araujo, Antonio, El origen del nucleocitoplasma. Breve historia de una hipótesis cambiante, incluido en ''Una revolución en la evolución'' (A revolution in evolution), Universitat València, 2003, * Lazcano Araujo, A. (1988). ''La bacteria prodigiosa''. Colección Biblioteca Joven. 91 pp. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. * Lazcano Araujo, A. (2008). ''Alexander I. Oparin: La chispa de la vida/The Spark of Life''. 112 pp. México: Pax México. , 9789688608869 * Lazcano Araujo, A. (1983). ''El origen de la vida: evolución química y evolución biológica''. 2a. ed., 107 pp., reimpr. México: Trillas , 9789682413131 Síntesis curricular del doctor Antonio Lazcano Araujo en un documento publicado
por la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional para una conferencia sobre el origen de la vida (Consulted on 07/11/12)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazcano, Antonio Living people National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Mexican biologists People from Tijuana Evolutionary biologists Astrobiologists 1950 births Writers from Baja California National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty