In particular, the interaction between functional ribozymes and ancient minerals under simulated primitive conditions is a recent research focus.
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How Did Life Emerge In Chemically Complex Messy Environments?
One of the problems that make it difficult to solve the mystery of the origin of life is determining how life emerged in chemically complex messy environments on primitive Earth.
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Rolling Circles As A Means Of Encoding Genes In The RNA World
The rolling circle mechanism found in viroids and some RNA viruses is a likely way that replication could have begun in the RNA World.
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Examining Proteomes And Earth’s Deep Oceans As The Location Of The Origin of Terrestrial Life
Some standard arguments are reviewed supporting deep ocean trenches as a likely location for the origin of terrestrial life.
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Preliminary Free Energy Map of Prebiotic Compounds Formed From CO2, H2 And H2S
What kinds of CHOS compounds might be formed in a prebiotic milieu by reducing CO2 in the presence of H2 and H2S? How might the presence of sulfur influence the […]
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Role of Stress in the Origin of Life
The article shows the compatibility of the concept of thermodynamic inversion (TI) of the origin of life with the theory of stress in (micro)biology.
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Emergence And Maintenance Of Stable Coexistence During A Long-term Multicellular Evolution Experiment
The evolution of multicellular life spurred evolutionary radiations, fundamentally changing many of Earth’s ecosystems.
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Clays And The Origin Of Life: The Experiments
There are three groups of scientists dominating the search for the origin of life: the organic chemists (the Soup), the molecular biologists (RNA world), and the inorganic chemists (metabolism and […]
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Protobiotic Network Reproducers Are Compositional Attractors: Enhanced Probability for Life’s Origin
The origin of life must have involved an unlikely transition from chaotic chemistry to reproducing supramolecular structures.
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ACEs In Spaces: Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems In Spatial Settings
Autocatalysis is thought to have played an important role in the earliest stages of the origin of life. An autocatalytic cycle’s (AC) constituent chemicals can collectively catalyze their own recreation.