Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth: summary and reflections.
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.
Jortner
Joshua
J
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. jortner@chemsg1.tau.ac.il
D018534:Earth, Planet; D004777:Environment; D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D000069497:Origin of Life
D009930:Organic Chemicals