Origin of life/Bibliography

Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

• Nicholson WL (2009). "Ancient micronauts: interplanetary transport of microbes by cosmic impacts.". Trends Microbiol 17 (6): 243-50. DOI:10.1016/j.tim.2009.03.004. PMID 19464895. Research Blogging. ^[e]

Abstract: Recent developments in microbiology, geophysics and planetary sciences raise the possibility that the planets in our solar system might not be biologically isolated. Hence, the possibility of lithopanspermia (the interplanetary transport of microbial passengers inside rocks) is presently being re-evaluated, with implications for the origin and evolution of life on Earth and within our solar system. Here, I summarize our current understanding of the physics of impacts, space transport of meteorites, and the potentiality of microorganisms to undergo and survive interplanetary transfer.

• Pross, A. (2003), "The driving force for life's emergence: kinetic and thermodynamic considerations", J Theor Biol 220 (3): 393–406, DOI:10.1006/jtbi.2003.3178 ^[e]

• Earth Raised up Its Magnetic Shield Early, Protecting Water and Emerging Life

• Dust Collected From Comet Contains a Key Ingredient of Life

• Tracey A. Lincoln and Gerald F. Joyce, (2009) Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme. Science 27 February 2009:ol. 323. no. 5918, pp. 1229 - 1232. DOI: 10.1126/science.1167856

• Devastating Meteorite Strikes May Have Created Earth’s First Organic Molecules

• 92: Life's Fifth Element Came From Meteors

• The Earth’s Oldest Diamonds May Show Evidence of Earliest L-ife