... chemical evolution liquid crystals nucleic acids origins of life self-assembly The origins of life involved many steps, from the formation of Earth [ 1 ], to chemical reactions of prebiotic reactants [ 2 , 3 ], to the emergence of functional polymers [ 2 ], to the evolution of these polymers...

... of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Biology and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) . origins of life prebiotic chemistry RNA catalysis RNA world self-replication The conjecture that life on Earth evolved from an ‘RNA World’ remains one...

... [ 30 ] while simultaneously allowing the divalent cations to perform their catalytic roles [ 33 , 34 ]. membrane origins of life protocell The Authors declare that there are no competing interests associated with the manuscript. References 1 Szathmáry , E. and Demeter...