Abstract
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. and Miller, S. L. (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 10014-10017]. This criticism is now answered.
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Wächtershäuser, G. (1994). Life in a ligand sphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(10), 4283–4287. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.10.4283
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