Abstract
Two theories on the origin of life are characterized and compared: (1) Origin by RNA replication in a cold prebiotic broth of activated nucleotides (RNA world theory) and (2) origin by transition of metal-catalyzed carbon fixation, with ligand acceleration by organic products, in a hot volcanic-hydrothermal flow setting (autocatalytic anabolist theory).
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Wächtershäuser, G. (2013). Origin of life: RNA world versus autocatalytic anabolist. In The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations (pp. 81–88). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30194-0_12
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