Literature DB >> 11536858

The origin of life--how long did it take?

L E Orgel1.   

Abstract

We do not understand the steps leading from the abiotic early earth to the RNA world. Consequently, we cannot estimate the time required for the origins of life. Attempts to circumvent this essential difficulty are based on misunderstandings of the nature of the problem.

Keywords:  NASA Discipline Exobiology; Non-NASA Center

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Year:  1998        PMID: 11536858     DOI: 10.1023/a:1006561308498

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph        ISSN: 0169-6149            Impact factor:   1.950


  14 in total

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Authors:  N H Sleep; K J Zahnle; J F Kasting; H J Morowitz
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1989-11-09       Impact factor: 49.962

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Journal:  Science       Date:  1985-05-03       Impact factor: 47.728

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Journal:  Prog Biophys Mol Biol       Date:  1992       Impact factor: 3.667

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Journal:  Nature       Date:  1996-11-07       Impact factor: 49.962

5.  Continuous in vitro evolution of catalytic function.

Authors:  M C Wright; G F Joyce
Journal:  Science       Date:  1997-04-25       Impact factor: 47.728

6.  The case for an ancestral genetic system involving simple analogues of the nucleotides.

Authors:  G F Joyce; A W Schwartz; S L Miller; L E Orgel
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1987-07       Impact factor: 11.205

7.  Autocatalytic sets of proteins.

Authors:  S A Kauffman
Journal:  J Theor Biol       Date:  1986-03-07       Impact factor: 2.691

8.  The origin of life in a cosmic context.

Authors:  C Sagan
Journal:  Orig Life       Date:  1974 Jul-Oct

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Authors:  D P Bartel; J W Szostak
Journal:  Science       Date:  1993-09-10       Impact factor: 47.728

10.  RNA-catalysed RNA polymerization using nucleoside triphosphates.

Authors:  E H Ekland; D P Bartel
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1996-07-25       Impact factor: 49.962

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  11 in total

1.  Bayesian analysis of the astrobiological implications of life's early emergence on Earth.

Authors:  David S Spiegel; Edwin L Turner
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2011-12-22       Impact factor: 11.205

2.  Prebiotic homochirality as a critical phenomenon.

Authors:  Marcelo Gleiser; Joel Thorarinson
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  2006-12       Impact factor: 1.950

3.  Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth: summary and reflections.

Authors:  Joshua Jortner
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2006-10-29       Impact factor: 6.237

Review 4.  Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: a Workshop Report.

Authors:  Carlos Mariscal; Ana Barahona; Nathanael Aubert-Kato; Arsev Umur Aydinoglu; Stuart Bartlett; María Luz Cárdenas; Kuhan Chandru; Carol Cleland; Benjamin T Cocanougher; Nathaniel Comfort; Athel Cornish-Bowden; Terrence Deacon; Tom Froese; Donato Giovannelli; John Hernlund; Piet Hut; Jun Kimura; Marie-Christine Maurel; Nancy Merino; Alvaro Moreno; Mayuko Nakagawa; Juli Peretó; Nathaniel Virgo; Olaf Witkowski; H James Cleaves
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  2019-08-09       Impact factor: 1.950

5.  Requirements and limits for life in the context of exoplanets.

Authors:  Christopher P McKay
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2014-06-09       Impact factor: 11.205

6.  Theoretical study of formate, tartrate, tartronate, and glycolate production from 6-carbon trioxylate intermediate in the citric acid cycle.

Authors:  Mehedi Khan; Supratik Kar; Jing Wang; Jerzy Leszczynski
Journal:  J Mol Model       Date:  2019-11-15       Impact factor: 1.810

7.  The antibiotic viomycin as a model peptide for the origin of the co-evolution of RNA and proteins.

Authors:  H Wank; E Clodi; M G Wallis; R Schroeder
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  1999-08       Impact factor: 1.950

8.  Asymmetric spatiotemporal evolution of prebiotic homochirality.

Authors:  Marcelo Gleiser
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  2006-11-28       Impact factor: 1.120

9.  Prebiotic chemistry: geochemical context and reaction screening.

Authors:  Henderson James Cleaves
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2013-04-29

10.  Was There an Early Habitability Window for Earth's Moon?

Authors:  Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Ian A Crawford
Journal:  Astrobiology       Date:  2018-07-23       Impact factor: 4.335

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