Coupled phases and combinatorial selection in fluctuating hydrothermal pools: A scenario to guide experimental approaches to the origin of cellular life

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 872-887

  Damer, Bruce ^a,b   Deamer, David ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b DigitalSpace Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Early evolution; Hydrothermal fields; Protocells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924663852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5010872     Document Type: Article

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