Answer 1:
I am doing research about the origin of life,
and I think there's a good possibility that life
started in the spaces between sheets of mica. I
have 2 scientific articles about this. One is
in the Journal of Theoretical Biology in 2010,
and you can send me an email to get a copy. The
other is in the Journal of Biological Structure
and Dynamics in 2012. It's free online at the
Journal's website, or I can email it to you.
I have hundreds of articles by other people
about the origin of life, and it's hard to pick
out just a few. My suggestion is to read the
ones in Scientific American. Here are the
Scientific American articles I'm recommending,
from google scholar:
Origin of life on earth
A RicARdo, JW Szostak - Scientific American,
2009 - nature.com
Every living cell, even the simplest bacterium,
teems with molecular contraptions that would be
the envy of any nanotechnologist. As they
incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the
cell,
these machines cut, paste and copy genetic
molecules, shuttle nutrients around or
turn ...
EXPANDING the Limits of Life
AS Bradley - Scientific American, 2009 -
nature.com
... Origin Of Life. ... Compounds that can
readily donate electrons to other compounds are
described
somewhat confusingly as "chemically reduced."
Scientists have long suspected that reduced
gases played an important role in the origin of
life on Earth. ...
A simpler origin for life
R Shapiro - Scientific American Magazine, 2007 -
sciamdigital.com
... Later, researchers turned to other possible
molecules as the earliest replicator, but I and
others
think that this replicator-first model of the
origin of life is fundamentally flawed. We
prefer an alter-
native idea that seems much more plausible. ...
Overview/Origin of Life ...
Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat
Evolution's Most Famous Experiment
D Fox - Scientific American, 2007 -
mistersyracuse.com
... Their results could change the way we
imagine life arose on early Earth. By Douglas
Fox. A Frankensteinesque contraption of glass
bulbs and crackling electrodes has
produced yet another revelation about the origin
of life.
The ...
Life's rocky start(role of minerals in
biogenesis)
RM Hazen - Scientific American, 2001 -
csa.com
Life's rocky start(role of minerals in
biogenesis).
Robert M Hazen Scientific American
284:44, 76-85, 4/2001.
New experiments are
reviewed which suggest that minerals
could have played major roles in the origin of
life on Earth. ...
The origin of life on earth
LE Orgel - Scientific American, 1994 -
csa.com
The body of evidence regarding the formation of
living organisms on Earth is reviewed, and
it is suggested that catalytic RNA played an
important role in life formation. The shared
properties of living organisms are listed, and
RNA research is discussed. Particular ...
Good luck! The origin of life is one of the
big unanswered questions in science!
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