TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth
T2 - Summary and reflections
AU - Jortner, Joshua
PY - 2006/10/29
Y1 - 2006/10/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Biotic raw materials
KW - Building blocks of biomolecules
KW - Complex biological matter
KW - Self-organization
KW - Structure-dynamics-function relations
KW - The chemical universe
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750047895&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2006.1909
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2006.1909
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C2 - 17008225
AN - SCOPUS:33750047895
SN - 0962-8436
VL - 361
SP - 1877
EP - 1891
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
IS - 1474
ER -