Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

Origins of life: From the mineral to the biochemical world. Jean-François. Abstract. In this brief review,
we summarize the most influential scenarios in origins-oflife studies that have resorted to minerals
surfaces. The influence of the pre-existing mineral world on the organization of matter towards the living
state may have manifested at several steps in the rise towards higher complexity. Small biomolecules
such as amino acids formed on mineral surfaces of interstellar dust, meteorites or comets prior to their
delivery to the primordial Earth. Mineral surfaces are known to promote the polymerization of these
small molecules to the corresponding biopolymers (e.g. amino acids to proteins), and they may have
oriented this polymerization to the formation of specific structures.
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