V. Zubov

The world on proto-Earth before the emergence of DNA and the hypothetical general scenario of pre-Darwinian chemical evolution, including the first steps in the origin of full‑fledged Life

After nearly half a century of dominance by the Oparin–Haldane coacervate hypothesis, which posited the primacy of peptides in the origin of life, researchers gradually shifted their focus to another type of biopolymer — namely, RNA molecules, which led to the assumption that the planet initially had an RNA world. Desp...