The Role of Natural Selection in the Origin of Life

Origin of life: Nascence man

(2009) John Whitfield   NATURE

Systems chemistry on early Earth

(2009) Jack W. Szostak   NATURE

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

On the origin of terrestrial homochirality for nucleosides and amino acids

(2009) R. Breslow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

(2009) T. A. Lincoln et al.   SCIENCE

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Iron-Sulfur World and Its Relevance to Life's Origins

(2008) David S. Ross   ASTROBIOLOGY

Chemistry and the Missing Era of Evolution

(2008) A. Graham Cairns-Smith   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Nonenzymatic RNA Ligation in Water

(2008) Samanta Pino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Origins of life: How leaky were primitive cells?

(2008) David W. Deamer   NATURE

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY