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- 1.The Grand Question of Life’s Origins
- 2.The Historical Setting of Origins Research
- 3.What Is Life?
- 4.Is There Life on Mars?
- 5.Earth’s Oldest Fossils
- 6.Fossil Isotopes
- 7.Molecular Biosignatures
- 8.Emergence
- 9.The Miller-Urey Experiment
- 10.Life From the Bottom of the Sea
- 11.The Deep, Hot Biosphere
- 12.Experiments at High Pressure
- 13.More Experiments Under Pressure
- 14.Deep Space Dust, Molten Rock, and Zeolite
- 15.Macromolecules and the Tree of Life
- 16.Lipids and Membrane Self-Organization
- 17.Life on Clay, Clay as Life
- 18.Life’s Curious Handedness
- 19.Self-Replicating Molecular Systems
- 20.Günter Wächtershäuser’s Grand Hypothesis
- 21.The RNA World
- 22.The Pre-RNA World
- 23.Natural Selection and Competition
- 24.Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life