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Kinetics and activation parameter analysis for the prebiotic oligocytidylate formation on Na(+)-montmorillonite at 0-100 degrees C.

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.

Sugar-driven prebiotic synthesis of 3,5(6)-dimethylpyrazin-2-one: a possible nucleobase of a primitive replication process.

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.

Methionine peptide formation under primordial earth conditions.

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

The implausibility of metabolic cycles on the prebiotic Earth.

Chemistry and the missing era of evolution.

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

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

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

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

Oligomerization of thioglutamic acid: encapsulated reactions and lipid catalysis.