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Fatty Acid Vesicles as Hard UV-C Shields for Early Life
Foundations, 2023 Theories on life’s origin generally acknowledge the advantage of a semi-permeable vesicle (protocell) for enhancing the chemical reaction–diffusion processes involved in abiogenesis.
Iván Lechuga, Karo Michaelian
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On the Evolution of the Biological Framework for Insight
Philosophies, 2021 The details of abiogenesis, to date, remain a matter of debate and constitute a key mystery in science and philosophy. The prevailing scientific hypothesis implies an evolutionary process of increasing complexity on Earth starting from (self ...
Claudio Neidhöfer
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Inference on the Nature and the Mass of Earth's Late Veneer from Noble Metals and Gases [PDF]
, 2001 Noble metals and gases are very sensitive to the late accretion to the Earth of asteroids and comets. We present mass balance arguments based on these elements that indicate that 0.7E22-2.7E22 kg of extraterrestrial bodies struck the Earth after core ...
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Additional Remarks on Abiogenesis [PDF]
Nature, 1873 SINCE my communication in NATURE, March 20, a further investigation of the subject has shown me that the experiments there recorded do not yet fully prove the reality of abiogenesis. My argumentation based on those experiments is liable to the following objection:—
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Molecular Imprinting: The missing piece in the puzzle of abiogenesis?
, 2018 In a neglected 2005 paper, Nobel Laureate Paul Lauterbur proposed that molecular imprinting in amorphous materials -- a phenomenon with an extensive experimental literature -- played a key role in abiogenesis. The present paper builds on Lauterbur's idea to propose imprint-mediated templating (IMT), a mechanism for prebiotic peptide replication that ...
K. Eric Drexler
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The Meaning of Technology and Religion in the Context of Teilhard de Chardin’s Theistic Evolution [PDF]
Bogoslovni Vestnik, 2023 One of the first pioneers to try to reconcile the Catholic doctrine of creation, salvation and redemption with the idea of evolution was the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He believed that humanity has an important role to play in the further
Borut Pohar
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The Theory of Evolution is Not an Explanation for the Origin of Life [PDF]
, 2010 The propagation of misconceptions about the theory of biological evolution must be addressed whenever and wherever they are encountered. The recent article by Paz-y-Mino and Espinoza in this journal contained several such misconceptions, including: that ...
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Life, 2017 One of the key steps in the origins of life was the formation of a membrane to separate protocells from their environment. These membranes are proposed to have been formed out of single chain amphiphiles, which are less stable than the dialkyl lipids ...
Sarah Maurer
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Simple Ion–Gas Mixtures as a Source of Key Molecules Relevant to Prebiotic Chemistry
Molecules, 2021 Very simple chemistry can result in the rapid and high-yield production of key prebiotic inorganic molecules. The two reactions investigated here involve such simple systems, (a) carbon disulfide (CS2) and acetate (CH3COO¯) and (b) sulfur dioxide (SO2 ...
Samuel Paula +3 more
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An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]
, 2017 I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism.
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