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In Praise of Error.

Günter Wächtershäuser1.   

Abstract

The methodological status of origin-of-life research as an experimental science, predicated on deductive logic, is assessed and illustrated by recent examples.

Keywords:  Artifacts; Dirt effects; FeS-membranes; Formaldehyde; Freeze-drying; Soda ocean

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Year:  2016        PMID: 26767654     DOI: 10.1007/s00239-015-9727-3

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Mol Evol        ISSN: 0022-2844            Impact factor:   2.395


  25 in total

1.  Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago.

Authors:  S A Wilde; J W Valley; W H Peck; C M Graham
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2001-01-11       Impact factor: 49.962

2.  Carbon dioxide on the early earth.

Authors:  J C Walker
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  1985       Impact factor: 1.950

3.  Speculations on the origins and evolution of photosynthesis.

Authors:  S GRANICK
Journal:  Ann N Y Acad Sci       Date:  1957-08-30       Impact factor: 5.691

4.  A possible prebiotic formation of ammonia from dinitrogen on iron sulfide surfaces.

Authors:  Mark Dörr; Johannes Kässbohrer; Renate Grunert; Günter Kreisel; Willi A Brand; Roland A Werner; Heike Geilmann; Christina Apfel; Christian Robl; Wolfgang Weigand
Journal:  Angew Chem Int Ed Engl       Date:  2003-04-04       Impact factor: 15.336

5.  Primordial ocean chemistry and its compatibility with the RNA world.

Authors:  Jeremy Kua; Jeffrey L Bada
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  2011-12-03       Impact factor: 1.950

6.  Chemistry of iron sulfides.

Authors:  David Rickard; George W Luther
Journal:  Chem Rev       Date:  2007-01-30       Impact factor: 60.622

7.  Extreme accumulation of nucleotides in simulated hydrothermal pore systems.

Authors:  Philipp Baaske; Franz M Weinert; Stefan Duhr; Kono H Lemke; Michael J Russell; Dieter Braun
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2007-05-09       Impact factor: 11.205

8.  Organic sulfur compounds resulting from the interaction of iron sulfide, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide in an anaerobic aqueous environment.

Authors:  W Heinen; A M Lauwers
Journal:  Orig Life Evol Biosph       Date:  1996-04       Impact factor: 1.950

9.  On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.

Authors:  William Martin; Michael J Russell
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2003-01-29       Impact factor: 6.237

Review 10.  Early bioenergetic evolution.

Authors:  Filipa L Sousa; Thorsten Thiergart; Giddy Landan; Shijulal Nelson-Sathi; Inês A C Pereira; John F Allen; Nick Lane; William F Martin
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2013-06-10       Impact factor: 6.237

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  12 in total

Review 1.  The "Origin-of-Life Reactor" and Reduction of CO2 by H2 in Inorganic Precipitates.

Authors:  J Baz Jackson
Journal:  J Mol Evol       Date:  2017-08-01       Impact factor: 2.395

Review 2.  Ancient Living Organisms Escaping from, or Imprisoned in, the Vents?

Authors:  J Baz Jackson
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2017-09-15

Review 3.  Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation, Ferredoxin, Flavodoxin, and Anaerobic Respiration With Protons (Ech) or NAD+ (Rnf) as Electron Acceptors: A Historical Review.

Authors:  Wolfgang Buckel; Rudolf K Thauer
Journal:  Front Microbiol       Date:  2018-03-14       Impact factor: 5.640

4.  Electron Transfer between Electrically Conductive Minerals and Quinones.

Authors:  Olga Taran
Journal:  Front Chem       Date:  2017-07-13       Impact factor: 5.221

Review 5.  Self-Referential Encoding on Modules of Anticodon Pairs-Roots of the Biological Flow System.

Authors:  Romeu Cardoso Guimarães
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2017-04-06

6.  Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks.

Authors:  David Deamer
Journal:  Beilstein J Org Chem       Date:  2017-03-28       Impact factor: 2.883

Review 7.  Factoring Origin of Life Hypotheses into the Search for Life in the Solar System and Beyond.

Authors:  Alex Longo; Bruce Damer
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2020-04-27

8.  Microfluidic Reactors for Carbon Fixation under Ambient-Pressure Alkaline-Hydrothermal-Vent Conditions.

Authors:  Victor Sojo; Aya Ohno; Shawn E McGlynn; Yoichi M A Yamada; Ryuhei Nakamura
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2019-02-01

9.  Possible mechanisms of CO2 reduction by H2 via prebiotic vectorial electrochemistry.

Authors:  Rafaela Vasiliadou; Nikolay Dimov; Nicolas Szita; Sean F Jordan; Nick Lane
Journal:  Interface Focus       Date:  2019-10-18       Impact factor: 3.906

Review 10.  The "Water Problem"(sic), the Illusory Pond and Life's Submarine Emergence-A Review.

Authors:  Michael J Russell
Journal:  Life (Basel)       Date:  2021-05-10
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