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Multistable Protocells Can Aid the Evolution of Prebiotic Autocatalytic Sets
Life, 2023 We present a simple mathematical model that captures the evolutionary capabilities of a prebiotic compartment or protocell. In the model, the protocell contains an autocatalytic set whose chemical dynamics is coupled to the growth–division dynamics of ...
Angad Yuvraj Singh, Sanjay Jain
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Origin of Life: The Point of No Return
Life, 2020 Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important ...
Dimiter Kunnev
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Life, 2021 “Prebiotic soup” often features in discussions of origins of life research, both as a theoretical concept when discussing abiological pathways to modern biochemical building blocks and, more recently, as a feedstock in prebiotic chemistry experiments ...
Lena Vincent +4 more
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Emergence and diversification of a host-parasite RNA ecosystem through Darwinian evolution
eLife, 2020 In prebiotic evolution, molecular self-replicators are considered to develop into diverse, complex living organisms. The appearance of parasitic replicators is believed inevitable in this process.
Taro Furubayashi +6 more
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Life, 2020 A variety of organic chemicals were likely available on prebiotic Earth. These derived from diverse processes including atmospheric and geochemical synthesis and extraterrestrial input, and were delivered to environments including oceans, lakes, and ...
Kuhan Chandru +3 more
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The Grayness of the Origin of Life
Life, 2021 In the search for life beyond Earth, distinguishing the living from the non-living is paramount. However, this distinction is often elusive, as the origin of life is likely a stepwise evolutionary process, not a singular event.
Hillary H. Smith +15 more
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Prebiotic chemistry: a review of nucleoside phosphorylation and polymerization
Open Biology, 2023 The phosphorylation of nucleosides and their polymerization are crucial issues concerning the origin of life. The question of how these plausible chemical processes took place in the prebiotic Earth is still perplexing, despite several studies that have ...
Xiaofan Guo +3 more
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The origins and physical roots of life’s dual – metabolic and genetic – nature [PDF]
, 2017 This review paper aims at a better understanding of the origin and physical foundation of life’s dual – metabolic and genetic – nature. First, I give a concise ‘top-down’ survey of the origin of life, i.e., backwards in time from extant DNA/RNA/protein ...
De Tiège, Alexis
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Remnants of an ancient metabolism without phosphate [PDF]
, 2017 Phosphate is essential for all living systems, serving as a building block of genetic and metabolic machinery. However, it is unclear how phosphate could have assumed these central roles on primordial Earth, given its poor geochemical accessibility.
Goldford, Joshua E. +3 more
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Temporal nanofluid environments induce prebiotic condensation in water
Communications Chemistry, 2023 Water is a problem in understanding chemical evolution towards life’s origins on Earth. Although all known life is being based on water key prebiotic reactions are inhibited by it.
Andrea Greiner de Herrera +2 more
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