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Well, as I finished up sorting references into the outline I posted earlier, I realized that many of the articles have content that overlaps several headings. Rather than repeat them each time, I have merely included them under the major point of interest (as I see it anyway).
Not all the referenced articles are "support" for the E/C version of abiogenesis. The creationist challenges to Origin of Life research are generally trivial, as this bibliography is intended to demonstrate. Indeed, real science thrives by a contest of ideas that produces a very critical intellectual environment. Also, many of the older papers are referenced because they have been selectively cited by creationists such as J. Wells, and J. Sarfati. I hope that this bibliography will be usefull to anyone interested in the actual state of abiogenesis research as opposed to the trivialized manner that it is presented by creationists. This is more or less typified by Wells and Sarfati mentioned above. It can also direct a reader to the literature without first wading through hundreds of pages of journal articles to locate information on a particular issue (the bibliography represents around 1,500 pages of journal text and about the same for the book references). I'll post this in chunks so that no single post is too large. I) Abiogenesis is not the same as “spontaneous generation” Abiogenesis is not necessarily germane to evolutionary biology. Darwin, vitalism and the Oparin/Haldane/Urey hypothesis Hill, L.C. Jr., 1998 The “Urey Hypothesis” Revisited: Molecular Genetics and Contemporary Chronologies. Early Chronology and Planetary Precesses, July 1998 (Abs.) Urey, Harold C. 1952 “On the early chemical history of the Earth and the origin of life” PNAS vol. 38:351-363 I.1) Age of the Earth Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991 The Age of the Earth Stanford: Stanford University Press Dickin, Alan P. 1997 Radiogenic Isotope Geology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press I.2) Review Articles de Duve, Christian 1995 “The Beginnings of Life on Earth “ American Scientist September-October 1995 Nisbet, E. G., N. H. Sleep 2001 “The habitat and nature of early life.” Nature vol. 409 29 February 1083-1090 Orgel, Leslie 1998 “The Origin of life - a review of facts and speculations” Trends in Biochemical Science 23:491-495 Uwe H. Wiechert 2002 Earth's Early Atmosphere Science 298: 2341-2342 II) The initial conditions on Earth, the Hadean Churchill, Deneyse, James F. Kasting 2000 “Constraints on Early Mantel Redox State” (Abstract) General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Gerasimov, M. V., Yu. P. Dikov, F. Wlotzka 1998 “Is There An Alernative For The Huge Impact-Generated Atmosphere?” (Abstract) Origin of the Earth and Moon Conference, Monterey, Dec. Hunten, Donald M., Robert O. Pepin, James C. G. Walker 1986 “Mass Fractionation in Hydrodynamic Excape.” Icarus 69: 532 hydrodynamic escape of hydrogen gas (and others) during planetary accretion Hunten, Donald M. 1993 “Atmospheric Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets” Science 259:915-920 (companion article to Kasting 1993) The massive impact aggregation of planetesimals Cohen, B. A., T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring 2000 “Support for the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis from Lunar Meteorite Impact Melt Ages” Science Dec 1 2000: 1754-1756. Kasting, J.F. Bolide impacts and the oxidation state of carbon in the Earth's early atmosphere. Origins of Life 20: 199-231. The chemical composition of planetesimals NiFe, chondrites (+ pre-impact weathering products), cometary Ehrenfreund, Pascale, Daniel P Glavin, Oliver Botta, George Cooper, Jeffrey L. Bada 2001 “Extraterrestrial amino acids in Orgueil and Ivuna: Tracing the parent body of CI type cabonaceous chondrites” PNAS-USA v.98 no.5:2138-2141 Whitby, J., R. Burgess, G. Turner, J. Gilmore, J. Bridges 2000 “Extinct I-291 in Halite from a Primitive Meteorite: Evidence for Evaporite Formation in the Early Solar System” Science 288: 1819-1821 Zolensky, M. et al 1999 “Astroidal Water Within Fluid Inclusion-bearing Halite in an H5 Chondrite, Monahaus (1998)” Science 285: 1377-1379. Impact chemistry of cometary bodies J. G. Blank et al. 2001 “Experimental shock chemistry of aqueous amino acid solutions and the cometary delivery of prebiotic compounds” Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 31(1-2): 15-51, Feb-Apr Wasson, John T. 2000 “Large Aerial Bursts; an Important Class Of Terrestrial Accretionary Events.” abstract, Catastrophic Events Conference Other extraterrestrial inputs BERNSTEIN, M. P., J. P. DWORKIN, S. A. SANDFORD, G. W. COOPER & L. J. ALLAMANDOLA 2002 Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 416, 401 - 403 (2002) Dreibus, G., H. Wanke, G. W. Lugmair 1997 “Volitile Inventories of Mars and Earth and Their Implication for the Evolution of the Planetary Atmospheres” Workshop on Early Mars (1997) Dworkin, Jason P., David W. Deamer, Scott A. Sandford, and Louis J. Allamandola 2000 “Self-assembling amphiphilic molecules: Synthesis in simulated interstellar/precometary ices” PNAS 98: 815-819 GM MUÑOZ CARO, UJ MEIERHENRICH, WA SCHUTTE, B BARBIER, A ARCONES SEGOVIA, H ROSENBAUER, WHP THIEMANN, A BRACK & JM GREENBERG 2002 Amino acids from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 416, 403 - 406 (2002) Matthews CN. 1992 Hydrogen cyanide polymerization: a preferred cosmochemical pathway. J. Br. Interplanet Soc. 45(1):43-8 Faint Sun, snowball earth = reaction product concentration, impact melting, UV production of O3 from ices. Other UV protections Bada, Jeffrey. L., C. Bigham, Stanley L. Miller 1994 “Impact melting of frozen oceans on the early Earth: Implications for the origin of life” PNAS-USA v.91: 1248-1250 Cleaves, H. James, Stanley L. Miller 1998 “Oceanic protection of prebiotic organic compounds from UV radiation” PNAS-USA v. 95, issue 13: 7260-7263 Hoffman, Paul F. Alan J. Kaufman, Galen P. Halverson, Daniel P. Schrag 1998 “A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth” Science v.281 (5381): 1342 (see also Christie-Blick et al 1999, and Hoffman and Schrag (1999) Hoffman, Paul F., Daniel P. Schrag 1999 “A reply to Christie-Blick et al” letters Science v.284 (5417): 1087a Kaufman, Alan J., Andrew H. Knoll, Guy M. Narbonne 1997 “Isotopes, ice ages, and terminal Proterozoic earth history” PNAS-USA v.94 (13): 6600 Noll KS, Roush TL, Cruikshank DP, Johnson RE, Pendleton YJ. “Detection of ozone on Saturn's satellites Rhea and Dione. “ Nature 1997 Jul 3;388(6637):45-7 Pavlov, Alexander, James K. asting, Jeninifer L. Eigenbrode, Katherine H. Freeman 2001 “Organic haze in Earth’s early atmosphere: Source of low-13C Late Archean kerogens?” Geology v.29 no. 11:1003-1006 Prinn, Ronald 2000 “Biospheric Traumas Caused By Great Imapcts” abstract, Catastrophic Events Conference Sagan, Carl, Christopher Chyba 1997 “The Early Faint Sun Paradox: Organic Shielding of Ultravioler-Labile Greenhouse Gases” Science v. 276 (5316): 1217-1221 Sleep, N. H., K. Zahnle, P. S. Neuhoff 2001 “ Initiation of clement surface conditions on the earliest Earth” PNAS-USA v.98 no. 7: 3666-3672 |
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Creationists like to argue (falsely) that there either was free oxygen that would destroy primordial organic molecules, or the opposit- that the absence of ozone would destroy primordial complex molecules through Uv irradiation.
III) Crustal/Oceanic/Atmospheric dynamics of the early Archean Davidson, C. F. 1963 The Precambrian atmosphere. Nature 197:893 (see Rutten, 1963) Holland, Heinrich D. 1984 The Chemical Evolution of the Atmoshphere and Oceans, Princeton Series in Geochemistry Princeton University Press Rutten, M.G. 1963 A responce to Davidson’s The Precambrian atmosphere. Nature 197:894 The mantel preservation of primordial gases Caffee, M. W., G. B. Hudson, C. Velsko, G. R. Huss, A. R. Chivas 1999 “Primordial Noble Gases from the Earth’s Mantle: Identification of a Primitive Volatile Component” Science v.285 (5436): 2115 Dauphas, Nicolas, Bernard Marty 1999 “Heavy Nitrogen in Carbonatites of the Kola Peninsula: A Possible Signiture of the Deep Mantle Science 286 (5449) : 2488 Dickin, Alan P. 1997 Radiogenic Isotope Geology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Trieloff, Mario, Joachim Kunz, David A. Clague, Darrell Harrison, Claude J. Allegre 2000 “The Nature of Pristine Noble Gases in Mantle Plumes” Science v.288:1036-1038 Trieloff, M., 2001 “Noble Gases in Earth’s Mantle: A Hybrid of Solar He and Ne Implanted by Corpuscular Radiation and Ar, Kr, Xe from “Planetary” Subcomponents in Carbonaceous Chondrites?” Abstract, 64th Anuall Meteoritical Society Meeting Trieloff, M., J. Kunz 2001 Terrestrial Noble Gas Systematics Revised: Evidence for Primordial Noble Gases From Earth’s Core? Eleventh Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, The Geochemical Society Redox conditions of the Archean atmosphere Holland, Heinrich D. 1999 “When did the Earth’s atmosphere become oxic? A Reply.” The Geochemical News #100: 20-22 (see Ohmoto 1997 ) Lasaga, A.C. and Ohmoto, H. 2002 “The oxygen geochemical cycle: dynamics and stability” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol 66, #3 361-381 Ohmoto, H. 1996 Evidence in pre-2.2 Ga paleosols for the early evolution of atmospheric oxygen and terrestrial biota. Geology, 24:1135-1138 Ohmoto, H. 1997 “When Did the Earth’s Atmosphere Become Oxic?” The Geochemical News, 93: 12-13, 26-27. (see Holland 1999) Ohmoto, H. 1999: Redox state of the Archean atmosphere: evidence from detrital heavy minerals in ca. 3250-2750 Ma sandstones from the Pilbara Craton, Australia: Comment and reply” Geology, 27: 1151. Rasmussen, B., Buick, R. & Holland, H.D., 1999 “ Redox state of the Archean atmosphere: evidence from detrital heavy minerals in ca. 3250-2750 Ma sandstones from the Pilbara Craton, Australia” Geology, 27: 115-118 Rasmussen, B., Buick, R. & Holland, H.D., 1999: Redox state of the Archean atmosphere: evidence from detrital heavy minerals in ca. 3250-2750 Ma sandstones from the Pilbara Craton, Australia: reply to Omoto Geology, 27: 1152. Towe, Kenneth 2002 “The Problematic Rise of Archean Oxygen” letters Science v.295 (5559):1419a Watanabe, Y., Martini, J.E.J., Ohmoto, H. 2000 “Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago.” letters, Nature, 408, 574-578 (2000). linkage of the atmosphere and the oceans Farquhar, James, Huming Bao, Mark Thiemens 2000 Atmospheric Influence of Earth’s Earliest Sulfur Cycle” Science v.289(5480):756 Kirsten S. Habicht, Michael Gade, Bo Thamdrup, Peter Berg, and Donald E. Canfield 2002 Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean Science 298: 2372-2374 Runnegar, Bruce 2000 “Archean Sulfates from Western Australia: Implications for Earth’s Early Atmosphere and Ocean” (Abstract) General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. linkage of the crust and the atmosphere/ocean systems Byerly, Gary R, Donald R. Lowe, Joseph L. Wooden, Xiaogang Xie 2002 "An Archaen Impact Layer from the Pilbara and Kaapvaal Cratons" Science 297 (5585): 1325 Canil, Dante 2002 “Vanadium in peridotites, mantle redox and tectonic environmnets: Archean to present” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 195 (2002) 75-90. Delano, John W. 2001 “Redox History of the Earth’s Interior since ~3900 Ma:Implications for Prebiotic Molecules” Origins of Life and the Evolution of the Biosphere v.31(4-5):311-341 Kump, Lee R., James F. Kasting, Mark E. Barley 2001 “Rise of atmospheric oxygen and the “upside-down” Archean mantle” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems vol. 2 paper# 2000GC000114 http://g-cubed.org/publicationsfinal/topbar.html Zolotov, M. Yu., E. L. Shock 1998 “Volcanic Gases: Synthesis of Organic Compounds on the Present and Early Earth.” Abstract, 1998 Origin of the Earth and Moon, Dec. Montery CA Oxygenation of the Archean Atmosphere and Oceans Brocks, Jochen J., Gram A. Logan, Roger Buick, Roger E. Summons 1999 Archaen Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes. Science 285 (5430):1033-1036 Castresana, Jose, Matti Saraste 1995 “Evolution of energetic metabolism: the respiration-early hypothesis” Trends in Biochemical Science 20:443-448 Catling, David C., Kevin J. Zahnle, Christopher P. McKay 2001 “Biogenic Methane, Hydrogen Escape, and the Irreversible Oxidation of Early Earth” Science 293 (5531): 839 Catling, David C., Kevin J. Zahnle, Christopher P. McKay 2002 “Reply to Towe (2002)” Science letters v.295 (5559):1419a Grotzinger, J.P. and J.F. Kasting. 1993 New constraints on Precambrian Ocean Composition, J. Geol. 101: 235-243. Holland, Heinrich D. 1999 “When did the Earth’s atmosphere become oxic? A Reply.” The Geochemical News #100: 20-22 (see Ohmoto 1997 ) Kasting, J.F. 1993 “Earth's early atmosphere” Science 259: 920-926. Kasting, J.F. 1993 “Algae and oxygen in Earth's ancient atmosphere” (Tech. Comment) and B. Runnegar “Responce to Kasting.” Science 259: 835. Kasting, J.F., D.H. Eggler, and S.P. Raeburn. 1993 Mantle redox evolution and the Oxidation State of the Archean atmosphere, J. Geol. 101: 245-257. Murakami et al., 2001. Direct evidence of late Archean to early Proterozoic anoxic atmosphere from a product of 2.5 Ga old weathering. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 184(2): 523-528. Rye, R., and Holland, H. D., 1998. Paleosols and the evolution of atmospheric oxygen: A critical review. American Journal of Science 298(8): 621-672. Ono, Shuhei, Hiroshi Ohmoto 2000 “Dissolution Kenetics of Natural Uraninite and the Evolution of Atmospheric Oxygen” (Abstract) General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. (proposed a pCO2 of 100PAL and low pH (4-5) retarding the dissolution of uraninite regradless of pO2) ignors the implications of pCO2 at 100 PAL and high pO2) Xiong, Jin, William M. Fischer, Kazuhito Inoue, Masaaki Nakahara, Carl E. Bauer. 2000 “Molecular Evidence for the Early Evolution of Photosynthesis” Science 298(5485): 1724 |
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IV) Abiotic generation of complex molecules on the Archean Earth
Abiotic amino acids Amend, J. P. , E. L. Shock 1998 “Energetics of Amino Acid Synthesis in Hydrothermal Ecosystems” Volume 281, number 5383, Issue of 11 Sep , pp. 1659-1662. Blochl, Elisabeth, Martin Keller, Gunter Wachtershauser, Karl Otto Stetter 1992 “Reactions depending on iron sulfide and linking geochemistry with biochemistry” PNAS-USA v.89: 8117-8120 BRANDES, JAY A., NABIL Z. BOCTOR, GEORGE D. CODY, BENJAMIN A. COOPER, ROBERT M. HAZEN & HATTEN S. YODER JR 1998 Abiotic nitrogen reduction on the early Earth Nature 395, 365 - 367 Horita, Juske, Michael E. Berndt 1999 Abiogenic Methane Formation and Isotropic Fractionization Under Hydrothermal Conditions. Science 285 (5430): 1055 Lazcano, Antonio, Stanley L. Miller 1996 “The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry, the Pre-RNA World, and Time” Cell vol 85:793-798 Lazcano, A. & S.L. Miller 1994 How long did it take for life to begin and evolve to cyanobacteria Journal of Molecular Evolution 39(6): 546-554, December Quote:
2002 “Abiognic formation of alkanes in the Earth’s crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reserevoirs.” Nature (letters) Vol 416: 522- 524 Miller, Stanley L., 1953 “A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions” Science vol. 117:528-529 Miller, Stanley, Harold C. Urey 1959 “Organic Compound Synthesis on the Primitive Earth” Science vol 139 Num 3370: 254-251 Miyakawa, Shin, Hiroto Yamanashi, Kensei Kobayashi, H. James Cleaves, Stanley L. Miller 2002 Prebiotic synthesis from CO atmospheres: Implications for the origins of life Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Issue 23, 14628-14631, November 12, Weber AL. 2002 Prebiotic amino acid thioester synthesis: thiol-dependent amino acid synthesis from formose substrates (formaldehyde and glycolaldehyde) and ammonia. SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA. PMID: 9611766 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Abiotic sugars Abiotic bases Levy, M and Miller, S.L., 1998 The stability of the RNA bases: Implications for the origin of life, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95(14):7933–38, Nelson, K. E., M. Levy, S. L. Miller 2000 “Peptide nucleic acids rather than RNA may have been the first genetic molecule” PNAS-USA v.97, 3868-3871 Nelson K.E., Robertson M.P., Levy M, Miller S.L. 2001 Concentration by evaporation and the prebiotic synthesis of cytosine. Orig Life Evol Biosph Jun;31(3):221-229 Shapiro, Robert 1999 Prebiotic Cytosine Synthesis: A Critical Analysis and Implications for the Origin of Life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 96 (8): 4396 *Side reactions make cytosine synthesis unlikely, but see Nelson et al (2001) V) Polymerization under abiotic conditions Atmospheric Cyclic (wet/dry, hot/cold) Lee DH, Severin K, Yokobayashi Y, and Ghadiri MR, 1997 Emergence of symbiosis in peptide self-replication through a hypercyclic network. Nature, 390: 591-4, Hydrothermal Cody, George D., et al 2000 “Primordial Carbonylated Iron-Sulfur Compounds and the Synthesis of Pyruvate” Science v.289 : 1337-1340 Horita, Juske, Michael E. Berndt 1999 Abiogenic Methane Formation and Isotropic Fractionization Under Hydrothermal Conditions. Science 285 (5430): 1055 Huber, Claudia, Gunter Wachtershauser 1997 “Activated Acetic Acid by Carbon Fixation on (Fe,Ni)S Under Primordial Conditions” Science v. 276: 245-247 Huber, Claudia, Gunter Wachtershauser 1998 “Peptides by Activation of Amino Acids with CO on (Ni,Fe)S Surfaces: Implications for the Origin of Life” Science v.281: 670-672 Imai, E., Honda, H., Hatori, K., Brack, A. and Matsuno, K. 1999 “Elongation of oligopeptides in a simulated submarine hydrothermal system“ Science 283(5403):831–833. Matsuno, Koichiro 2003 Catalytic Capability of Oligopeptides in the Interface Chemistry in Hyrotheremal Environments. MS in the possession of the author. Schoonen, Martin A. A., Yong Xu 2001 “Nitrogen Reduction Under Hydrothrmal Vent Conditions: Implications for the Prebiotic Synthesis of C-H-O-N Compounds” Astrobiology 1:133-142 Shock, Everett L. 1990 “Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Organic Compounds in Hydrothernal Systems” Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere v.20: 331-367 Von Damm, K. L. 1995 “Controls on the Chemistry and Temporal Variability of Seafloor Hydrothemal Fluids” in Seafloor Hydrodynamical Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Geological Interactions Geophysical Monograph 91 The American Geophysical Union Wachtershauser, Gunter 2000 “Perspective” Science v.289 : 1308 VI) Precellular evolution Denton M, Marshall C, Legge M, 2002 “The Protein Folds as Platonic Forms : New support for the Pre-Darwinian Conception of Evolution by Natural Law,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 219(3):325-342, Dec 7 BTW, This is former scientist turned creationist M. Denton returning to science fold! Davis, B. 2002 Molecular evolution before the origin of species. Research Foundation of Southern California, Inc., 5580 La Jolla Boulevard, No 60, 92037, La Jolla, CA, USA Ellington, Andrew D., Michael P. Robertson, and Jim Bull 1997 ”Ribozymes in Wonderland”Science April 25; 276: 546-547. (in Perspectives) Reader, J. S. and G. F. Joyce 2002 "A ribozyme composed of only two different nucleotides." Nature vol 420, pp 841-844. Rode, Bernd Michael 1999 “Peptides and the origin of life” Peptides 20:773-786 Segre, Daniel, Doron Lancet 2000 “Composing life” European Molecular Biology Organization Reports Vol. 1, #3:217-222. Woese, Carl 1998 “The universal ancestor” PNAS Vol. 95, Issue 12, 6854-6859, June 9 Woese, Carl 2002 “On the evolution of Cells” PNAS Vol. 99 13:8742-8747, June 25 Mineral catalysts/templates Huber, Claudia, Gunter Wachtershauser 1998 “Peptides by Activation of Amino Acids with CO on (Ni,Fe)S Surfaces: Implications for the Origin of Life” Science v.281: 670-672 Parsons, Ian, Martin R. Lee, and Joseph V. Smith 1998 Biochemical Evolution II: Origin of Life in Tubular Microsrtuctures on Weathered Feldspar Surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 95 (26): 15173 Minimal enzymes Chirality (mostly an inflated issue) Hazen, R.M., T.R. Filley, and G.A. Goodfriend. 2001. Selective adsorption of L- and D-amino acids on calcite: Implications for biochemical homochirality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98(May 8):5487. Irion, Robert 1998 “Did Twisty Starlight Set Stage for Life?” Science July 31; 281: 626-627. (in News of the Week) Saghatelion A, Yokobayashi Y, Soltani K, Ghadiri MR, 2001 "A chiroselective peptide replicator", Nature 409: 797-51, Feb 2001 Singleton, D A,& Vo, L K, 2002 “Enantioselective Synthsis without Discrete Optically Active Additives” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 10010-10011 |
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VII) Likely parts of the earliest organisms, and the endosymbiont hypothesis of cell formation
Arcady R. Mushegian and Eugene V. Koonin 1996 A minimum gene set for cellular life derived by comparison of complete bacterial genomes by , Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, vol 93, p 10268 Evolution of amino Acid frequencies in proteins over deep time: inferred order of introduction of amino acids into the genetic code. Brooks DJ, Fresco JR, Lesk AM, Singh M. 2002 Evolution of amino Acid frequencies in proteins over deep time: inferred order of introduction of amino acids into the genetic code. Mol Biol Evol. 2002 Oct;19(10):1645-55. Dyall, Sabrina D., Patricia J. Johnson 2000 “Origins of hydrogenosomes and mitochondria: evolution and organelle biogensis.” Current Opinion in Microbiology 3:404-411 Harris, J. Kirk, Scott T. Kelley, George B. Spiegelman, and Norman R. Pace 2003 The Genetic Core of the Universal Ancestor http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/ab...GR-6528v1?etoc Olendzenski, Lorraine, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten 2000 “How Much Did Horizontal Gene Transfer Contribute to Early Evolution?: Quantifying Archaeal Genes in Two Bacterial Lineages ” (Abstract) General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Schwartz, Robert M., Margret O. Dayhoff 1978 “Origins of Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, Mitochondria, and Chloroplasts” Science Vol. 199 395-403 Schopf, J. William 1994 “Disparate rates, differing fates: Tempo and modes of evolution changed from the Precabrian to the Phanerozoic” PNAC-USA v.91: 6735-6742 VIII) Steps/events that have left a geochemical trace, and a timeline Anbar, A. D., A. H. Knoll 2002 Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry and Evolution: A Bioinorganic Bridge? Science Vol 297, Number 5584, Issue of 16 Aug 2002, pp. 1137-1142. Christie-Blink, Nicholas, Linda E. Sohl, Martin J. Kennedy 1999 “Considering a Neoproterozic Snowball Earth” letters Science v.284 (5417): 1087a (see Hoffman et al 1998, 1999) Des Marais, David J. 2000 “When Did Photosynthesis Emerge on Earth?” Science 289 (5485): 1703 Dismukes, G. C., V. V. Klimov, S. V. Baranov, Yu. N. Kozlov, J. DasGupta, A. Tyryshkin. 2001 “The Origin of Atmospheric Oxygen on Earth: The Innovation of Oxygenic Photosynthesis” PNAS-USA vl 98 no. 5: 2170-2175 Farquhar, J., B. A. Wing, K. D. McKeegan, J. W. Harris, P. Cartigny, and M. H. Thiemens 2002 Mass-independent Sulfur of Inclusions in Diamond and Sulfur Recycling on Early Earth Science 2002 298: 2369-2372 Fedo, Christopher M. and Martin J. Whitehouse 2002 “Metasomatic Origin of Quartz-Pyroxene Rock, Akilia, Greenland, and Implications for Earth's Earliest Life” Science 296: 1448-1452. (in Reports) Han, T.-M, Bruce Runnegar 1992 “ Megascopic Eukaryotic Alge from the 2.1-Billion-Year-Old Negaunee Iron-Formation, Michigan“ Science 257: 232-235 Hedges, S. Blair, Hsiong Chen, Sudhir Kumar, Daniel Y-C Wang, Amanda S. Thompson, Hidemi Watanabe. 2001 “A genomic timescale for the origin of eukaryotes” Bio-med Central: Evolutionary Biology 1:4 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/1/4 Kakegawa, T., Hajime Kawai, Hiroshi Ohmoto 1999 Origins of pyrites in the ~2.5 Ga Mt. McRae Shale, the Hamersley district, western Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 62, 3205-3220. Kasting J. F., J. L. Siefert, 2002 “Life and the Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere” Science 296:1066 Kerr, Richard A. 2002 “Reversal Reveal Pitfalls in Spotting Ancient and E.T. Life” Science (Perspectives) 296:1384-1385 Kirschvink, Joseph L., et al 2000 “Paleoproterozoic Snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences” PNAS-USA v.97, no.4: 1400-1405 Mojzsis, Stephen J., T. Mark Harrison, 2000 “Vestiges of a Beginning: Clues to the Emergent Biosphere Recorded in the Oldest Known Sedimentary Rocks” GSA Today, April MOJZSIS, STEPHEN J., T. MARK HARRISON, ROBERT T. PIDGEON 2001 ”Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4,300 Myr ago” Nature 409, 178-181 (11 January ) VAN ZUILENMARK A., AIVO LEPLAND & GUSTAF ARRHENIUS 2002 Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life. Nature Vol 418: 6898 627-630 Rosing, T. Minik 1999 13C-Depleated Carbon Microparticles in >3700-Ma Sea-Floor Sedimentary rocks from West Greenland. Science 283 (5402): 674 Rundel, C. C., N. J. Snelling 1977 “The Geochronology of uraniferous mineral in the Witwatersrand Triad; an interpretation of new and existing U-Pb agee data on rocks and minerals from Dominion Reef, Witwatersrand, and Venterrsdorp Supergroups” Philosopical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 286 (1977): 548 Simonson, B. M., and S. W. Hassler, 1996 “Was the deposition of large Precambrian iron formations linked to major marine transgression?” Journal of Geology, 104, 665-676, Simpson P. R., J. F. W. Bowles 1977 “Uranium Mineralization of the Witwatersrand and Dominion Reef Systems” Philosopical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 286 (1977): 527-548 (see Rundel and Snelling 1977 (the same issue of the journal)) Whitehouse, Martin. 2000 “Time Constraints on When Life Began: The oldest Record of Life on Earth?” The Geochemical News #103, April. Wilde, Simon A., John W. Valley, William H. Peck, Collin M. Graham 2001 “Evidence from detrital zircons for the existance of contenental crust and oceans on Earth 4.4 Gyr ago” Nature (letters) Vol 409:175-181 IX) What is missing+Panspermia+probability confusions+information as complexity Bell, G. , 2001 “Neutral Macroecology” Science 293, 2413 - 2418, Hornbeck, Gerda et al 2001 “Protection of Bacterial Spores in Space, a Contribution to the Discussion on Panspermia” Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere v.31(6):527-547 Kaufman, Stuart A. 1993 The Origins of Order: Self -Organization and Selection in Evolution Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kirchvink, Joseph, L, Benjamin P. Weiss 2001 "Mars, Panspermia, and the Origin Of Life: Where Did It All Begin?" Palaeontologia Electronica vol.4 No.2 Smith, John Maynard and Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution (Oxford:W. H. Freeman Spektrum, 1995). “.... the formation of complex assemblies is often irreversible.” Wicken, Jeffrey S. 1979 The Generation of Complexity in Evolution: A Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretical Discussion, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 77 (April ), p. 349 Line, Martin A. 2002 The Enigma of the Origin of Life and its Timing. Microbiology 148, 21-27 (likes panspermia, cus he wants more time) |
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What I would love to see is additional articles to add within these headings. And even a discussion of the headings themselves would be welcome.
There are many web accessable articles other than the journal articles I mainly relied on above. A web version of this would be very good as well. |
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Well this is just great. There is surely a haystack worth of data here. Would anyone care to direct me to the bail the needle I'm looking for might be in?
Where is the reference to the abiogenetic experiments Doubting Didymus referred to? And if the experiments can produce self-replicating DNA molecules, how do we get from there to a living organism? If the mechanism is understood, why can't we produce such an organism? |
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Has it occured to you that we are far more able to manipulate cells, than planets? Does that suggest that the lack of artificial suns, planets, and galaxies leads us to reject astronomy?
Elsewhere you proposed an inane experiment of destroying a cell and then expecting it to spontaniously reassemble. Do you expect your ground beef to reassemble into a steak? The research that Doubting Didymus thought would be relevent to your interests are under headings: IV) Abiotic generation of complex molecules on the Archean Earth, V) Polymerization under abiotic conditions, and VII) Likely parts of the earliest organisms, and the endosymbiont hypothesis of cell formation. If you will not make the effort to gain an eduction, there is no reason to provide you with the directions. If you want a simple answer: the chemical mechanisms necessary for the origin of life are known in broad outline:abiotic generation of complex molecules, their polymerization, the origin of catylitic self-replicators, prebiotic molecular evolution, the endosymbiont origin of the cell. The geochemical signals that this has in fact occured on this planet are also known in outline (see section VIII above, and other references through out). Our knowledge of ancient life is (and always will be) deficient relative to our knowledge of modern life. In this, astronomers have a strong advantage, as they are able to directly observe the past. There is no mystery as to the origin of life in the universe, but, there are lifetimes of details left to discover to interest and amuse us. The references I provided above represent a mere 3 to 4 thousand pages of research in easily available publications. I read the entire list in less than one year while working. I acknowledge that it is somewhat idiocentric, as there are some areas that I am personally more interested than others. Gaps in my reading are clearly indicated by the number of refernces under specific headings. This is perhaps 1 to 10 percent of the available research publications. I have five or six books out of dozens, and there are entire journals dedicated just to OOL research. So, instead of whinning, "Where is ... , " go to a library and start earning an education. |
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I would suggest, however, that our inability to fabricate planets and such is indeed symptomatic of a lack of knowledge in that area. It was only in the last few years that it was discovered that the Earth's core is a fission reactor, for instance. That suggests an even greater kowledge deficiency in the area of other celestial bodies. Quote:
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