This is an essential contribution toward the solution of one of the fundamental problems of biology
Sir John Kendrew
Küppers, B.-O.: Information and the Origin of Life
Foreword by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
MIT Press, 237 pages, Cambridge/Mass. 1990
ISBN 0-262-11142-X
(German original 1986, reprinted 1990; Polish 1991; Japanese 1991)