[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Abiogenesis has a long and respectable (haha) history as part of evolutionary science. Though the Haeckelian monists are surely the craziest writers on the emergence of life from psychomatic crystals and primordial plastidules, here's something american, a very amusing fake science book by Darwin Medalist Henry Fairfield Osborn. It's about abiogenesis and goo-to-you evolution, with a distinctly monistic aftertaste:

The Origin and Evolution of Life

That book was cited by top evolutionary scientists. You'll need WinDjvu to read it. Well worth going through at least the first third.

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

Abiogenesis has a long and respectable (haha) history as part of evolutionary science.... here's something american, a very amusing fake science book by Darwin Medalist Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Because really, where better to get insight into current scientific thinking than a book written in 1916? Of course one might wonder why, if origins is part of evolution, Osborn felt the need to separate them in his title, and to write in his Preface, "Some day a constellation of genius will unite in one laboratory on the life problem. This [is not] possible at present..." But that might just confuse things.