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An extended model for the evolution of prebiotic homochirality: a bottom-up approach to the origin of life.

Early stages of the evolution of life: a cybernetic approach.

Asymmetric autocatalytic Mannich reaction in the presence of water and its implication in prebiotic chemistry.

Oxygen and life on earth: an anesthesiologist's views on oxygen evolution, discovery, sensing, and utilization.

From prebiotic chemistry to cellular metabolism--the chemical evolution of metabolism before Darwinian natural selection.

Group I introns and GNRA tetraloops: remnants of 'The RNA world'?

One-step formation of oligopeptide-like molecules from Glu and Asp in hydrothermal environments.

Physical chemistry: did life grind to a start?

Molecular homochirality and the parity-violating energy difference. A critique with new proposals.

Sublime arguments: rethinking the generation of homochirality under prebiotic conditions.

Methionine peptide formation under primordial earth conditions.

Chemistry and the missing era of evolution.

Prebiotic replicase evolution in a surface-bound metabolic system: parasites as a source of adaptive evolution.

Metal-ion catalyzed polymerization in the eutectic phase in water-ice: a possible approach to template-directed RNA polymerization.

The search for a potentially prebiotic synthesis of nucleotides via arabinose-3-phosphate and its cyanamide derivative.

The implausibility of metabolic cycles on the prebiotic Earth.

The effects of ferrous and other ions on the abiotic formation of biomolecules using aqueous aerosols and spark discharges.

Oligomerization of thioglutamic acid: encapsulated reactions and lipid catalysis.

The first steps of chemical evolution towards the origin of life.

A photochemical mechanism for homochirogenesis.