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Prebiotic Chemistry: The Role of Trimetaphosphate in Prebiotic Chemical Evolution
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Life’s origins have always been a scientific puzzle. Understanding the production of biomolecules is crucial for understanding the evolution of life on Earth.
Dingwei Gan +6 more
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Group selection models in prebiotic evolution [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2000 The evolution of enzyme production is studied analytically using ideas of the group selection theory for the evolution of altruistic behavior. In particular, we argue that the mathematical formulation of Wilson's structured deme model ({\it The Evolution of Populations and Communities}, Benjamin/Cumings, Menlo Park, 1980) is a mean-field approach in ...
Alves, D. +3 more
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The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThe origin of life must have been preceded by Darwin-like evolutionary dynamics that could propagate it. How did that adaptive dynamics arise? And from what prebiotic molecules?
Charles D. Kocher, Ken A. Dill
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Groundwater-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Alkaline Lake Environments
LifeAlkaline lakes are thought to have facilitated prebiotic synthesis reactions on the early Earth because their modern analogs accumulate vital chemical feedstocks such as phosphate through the evaporation of dilute groundwaters.
Benjamin M. Tutolo +10 more
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ON THE THEORY OF PREBIOTIC EVOLUTION [PDF]
Filozofia i NaukaThe main theorems of the theory of evolution of open catalytic systems are briefly presented. The difference between the “natural-historical” and “actualistic” approach to the problem of the origins of life was highlighted.
Alexander Prokofievich Rudenko
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Natural Pyrrhotite as a Catalyst in Prebiotic Chemical Evolution [PDF]
Life, 2013 The idea of an autotrophic organism as the first living being on Earth leads to the hypothesis of a protometabolic, complex chemical system. In one of the main hypotheses, the first metabolic systems emerged from the interaction between sulfide minerals ...
César Menor-Salván +2 more
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Harnessing prebiotic formamide chemistry: a novel platform for antiviral exploration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsViruses and host cells are intricately connected through a shared “chemical language” that may trace back to the prebiotic chemistry of early Earth. In this study, we present an innovative platform for antiviral exploration inspired by this primordial ...
Maria Grazia Martina +10 more
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Life, 2022 Origins-of-life chemical experiments usually aim to produce specific chemical end-products such as amino acids, nucleic acids or sugars. The resulting chemical systems do not evolve or adapt because they lack natural selection processes. We have modified
Robert Root-Bernstein, Adam W. Brown
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On the Explicit Function of Life within a Physical Universe
Philosophies, 2021 To describe the meaning of functionality in a universe before life evolved, existing etiological and systemic accounts of function are evaluated. Since the theory of function is only applicable in context with living beings and artifacts used by living ...
Annette Grathoff
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Life, 2022 The RNA world is one of the principal hypotheses to explain the emergence of living systems on the prebiotic Earth. It posits that RNA oligonucleotides acted as both carriers of information as well as catalytic molecules, promoting their own replication.
Tobias Göppel +3 more
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