Selected reading: LUCA reconstruction and open prebiotic chemistry questions.
Open the source ↗How to study this source
How did chemistry become life?
Ask what comparative reconstruction can establish about LUCA, rather than the first living system.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
Read alongside, read against
The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics
Nick Lane · William Martin. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Template-Directed Synthesis of a Genetic Polymer in a Model Protocell
Sheref S. Mansy et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Protocells and RNA Self-Replication
Gerald F. Joyce · Jack W. Szostak. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The Eightfold Path to Non-Enzymatic RNA Replication
Jack W. Szostak. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Common Origins of RNA, Protein and Lipid Precursors in a Cyanosulfidic Protometabolism
Bhavesh H. Patel et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.