title: Question 1: commentary referring to the statement "the origin of life can be traced back to the origin of kinetic control" and the question "do you agree with this statement; and how would you envisage the prebiotic evolutionary bridge between thermodynamic and kinetic control?" stated in section 1.1.
abstract: The paper summarizes thoughts induced by some of the programmatic questions Pier Luigi Luisi posed for discussion at the Erice workshop.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Hoenggerberg HCI H309, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. eschenmoser@org.chem.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eschenmoser
mesh_terms: D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D000069497:Origin of Life; D013816:Thermodynamics