ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2006
Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth: summary and reflections.
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- Emergence of life: Physical chemistry changes the paradigm.Biology direct · 2015Review
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- The role of biomacromolecular crowding, ionic strength, and physicochemical gradients in the complexities of life's emergence.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2009Review
- Introduction: Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2006Article
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Abstract
This review attempts to situate the emergence of life on the early Earth within the scientific issues of the operational and mechanistic description of life, the conditions and constraints of prebiotic chemistry, together with bottom-up molecular fabrication and biomolecular nanofabrication and top-down miniaturization approaches to the origin of terrestrial life.
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