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Cosmic Chemical Evolution [PDF]
ApJ(Letters) in press, 15 latex pages and 4 ...
Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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Autocatalytic Sets Arising in a Combinatorial Model of Chemical Evolution [PDF]
The idea that chemical evolution led to the origin of life is not new, but still leaves open the question of how exactly it could have led to a coherent and self-reproducing collective of molecules.
Wim Hordijk, Mike Steel, Stuart Kauffman
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The Informational Substrate of Chemical Evolution: Implications for Abiogenesis [PDF]
A key aspect of biological evolution is the capacity of living systems to process information, coded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and used to direct how the cell works.
Andrés de la Escosura
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Natural Radioactivity and Chemical Evolution on the Early Earth: Prebiotic Chemistry and Oxygenation [PDF]
It is generally recognized that the evolution of the early Earth was affected by an external energy source: radiation from the early Sun. The hypothesis about the important role of natural radioactivity, as a source of internal energy in the evolution of
Boris Ershov
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A recursive microfluidic platform to explore the emergence of chemical evolution [PDF]
We propose that a chemically agnostic approach to explore the origin of life, using an automated recursive platform based on droplet microfluidics, could be used to induce artificial chemical evolution by iterations of growth, speciation, selection, and ...
David Doran+4 more
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Stellar chemical evolution [PDF]
One of the major achievements of astrophysics has been the demonstration that most of the chemical elements have been synthesized in stars: nucleosynthesis calculations of homogeneous and inhomogeneous big bang cosmologies show that, in comparison with the most metal-poor stars currently known, essentially no elements heavier than B existed at the era ...
John E. Norris
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Primitive Photosynthetic Architectures Based on Self‐Organization and Chemical Evolution of Amino Acids and Metal Ions [PDF]
The emergence of light‐energy‐utilizing metabolism is likely to be a critical milestone in prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life. However, how the primitive pigment is spontaneously generated still remains unknown.
Kai Liu+4 more
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Chemical Evolution of a Bacterial Proteome. [PDF]
AbstractWe have changed the amino acid set of the genetic code of Escherichia coli by evolving cultures capable of growing on the synthetic noncanonical amino acid L‐β‐(thieno[3,2‐b]pyrrolyl)alanine ([3,2]Tpa) as a sole surrogate for the canonical amino acid L‐tryptophan (Trp).
Hoesl MG+10 more
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The origin of biopolymers is a central question in origins of life research. In extant life, proteins are coded linear polymers made of a fixed set of twenty alpha-L-amino acids.
Moran Frenkel-Pinter+6 more
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Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptides
One of the early processes enabling the origins of life is thought to be the condensation of building blocks into oligomers and polymers. In this article, the authors report the synthesis of thiodepsipeptides and HS-peptides under mild temperatures and ...
Moran Frenkel-Pinter+6 more
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