The minimal cell / Markus Pech and Knud H. Nierhaus -- Planetary astrobiology : the outer solar system / François Raulin -- Mars, the astrobiological target of the 21st century? / Patrice Coll and Fabien Stalport -- Comets and astrobiology / Hervé Cottin and Didier Despois -- Meteorites and the chemistry that preceded life's origin / Sandra Pizzarello -- Chirality, homochirality and the order of biomolecular interactions / Sandra Pizzarello -- The primitive Earth / James F. Kasting -- Biomolecules / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- The dawn of the RNA world : RNA polymerization from monoribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions / Pierre-Alain Monnard -- Ribozymes and the evolution of metabolism / Randall A. Hughes and Andrew D. Ellington -- Precellular evolution : vesicles and protocells / Pasquale Stano and Pier Luigi Luisi -- Split genes, ancestral genes / Massimo Di Giulio -- Genetic code / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- Root of life / J. Tze-Fei Wong.
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