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Abiogenesis: a possible quantum interpretation of the telepoietic conjecture [PDF]
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Vittorio Cocchi, Rossana Morandi
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Towards an evolutionary theory of the origin of life based on kinetics and thermodynamics [PDF]
Open Biology, 2013 A sudden transition in a system from an inanimate state to the living state—defined on the basis of present day living organisms—would constitute a highly unlikely event hardly predictable from physical laws.
Robert Pascal +2 more
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Abiogenesis not required to explain the origin of volcanic-hydrothermal hydrocarbons [PDF]
Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2019 Abiotic formation of n-alkane hydrocarbons has been postulated to occur within Earth's crust. Apparent evidence was primarily based on uncommon carbon and hydrogen isotope distribution patterns that set methane and its higher chain homologues apart from biotic isotopic compositions associated with microbial production and closed system thermal ...
Jens Fiebig +9 more
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Did Homocysteine Take Part in the Start of the Synthesis of Peptides on the Early Earth?
Biomolecules, 2022 Unlike its shorter analog, cysteine, and its methylated derivative, methionine, homocysteine is not today a proteinogenic amino acid. However, this thiol containing amino acid is capable of forming an activated species intramolecularly.
Sparta Youssef-Saliba +2 more
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Simplicity out of complexity? On physical eschatology and abiogenesis
Theoria, Beograd, 2021 Standard reductionist narrative about the necessity of complex systems arising from simple subsystems can be undermined from multiple directions. Here, I shall suggest an unexpected way of such undermining which occurs upon joining our best understanding of the future evolution of the universe (as outlined by physical eschatology) with the ...
Milan M. Ćirković
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The origin of life: what we know, what we can know and what we will never know [PDF]
Open Biology, 2013 The origin of life (OOL) problem remains one of the more challenging scientific questions of all time. In this essay, we propose that following recent experimental and theoretical advances in systems chemistry, the underlying principle governing the ...
Addy Pross, Robert Pascal
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Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History
Religions, 2023 The more than thirty spacetime theorems developed over the past five decades establish that the universe and its spacetime dimensions have emerged from a cause/causal agent beyond the cosmos.
Hugh Norman Ross
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Straightforward Creation of Possibly Prebiotic Complex Mixtures of Thiol-Rich Peptides
Life, 2023 At the origin of life, extremely diverse mixtures of oligomers and polymers could be obtained from relatively simple molecular bricks. Here, we present an example of the polymerization of two amidonitriles derived from cysteine, Cys-Ala-CN and Cys-Met-CN.
Ibrahim Shalayel +3 more
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The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions
Life, 2020 Research on the origin of life is highly heterogeneous. After a peculiar historical development, it still includes strongly opposed views which potentially hinder progress.
Martina Preiner +24 more
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AGU Advances, Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Aqueous S[IV] species (HSO3− ${\mathrm{H}\mathrm{S}\mathrm{O}}_{3}^{-}$, SO32− ${\mathrm{S}\mathrm{O}}_{3}^{2-}$) derived from volcanogenic atmospheric SO2 are important to planetary habitability through their roles in proposed origins‐of‐life chemistry and influence on atmospheric sulfur haze formation, but the early cycling of S[IV] is ...
Sukrit Ranjan +8 more
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