Conditions for the Emergence of Life on the Early Earth: Summary and Reflections

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Journal Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2006 Sep 30

PMID 17008225

Citations 13

Authors

Joshua Jortner

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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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