Life in a ligand sphere.

G Wächtershäuser

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PMID: 8183902 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.10.4283

The most fundamental divide in biology is that between heterotrophic and autotrophic ways of life. Two of the leading proponents of a heterotrophic origin of life ("hetero-origin") in a prebiotic broth, C. de Duve and S. L. Miller, have criticized my theory of a pyrite-pulled chemo-autotrophic origin of life ("auto-origin") [De Duve, C. & Miller, S. L. (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 10014-10017]. This criticism is now answered.

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Biological Evolution

Carbon

Models, Biological

Models, Genetic

Nucleic Acids

Origin of Life

Thermodynamics

Nucleic Acids

Carbon

Journal Article

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