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ArticleRoyal Society open science2017

Toy trains, loaded dice and the origin of life: dimerization on mineral surfaces under periodic drive with Gaussian inputs.

Rowena Ball, John Brindley

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rowena BallMathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra 2602, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3551-3012
John BrindleySchool of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a major extension of previous work, we model the putative hydrothermal rock pore setting for the origin of life on Earth as a series of coupled continuous flow units (the

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chemical evolutionleft-skewed right-weighted probability distributionorigin of lifestochastic dynamical modelthermochemical and pH oscillator

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PMID29291048
PMCPMC5717622

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