| Title |
Organic Aerosols and the Origin of Life: An Hypothesis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, February 2004
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| DOI | 10.1023/b:orig.0000009828.40846.b3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
D. J. Donaldson, H. Tervahattu, A. F. Tuck, V. Vaida |
| Abstract |
Recent experimental work has verified the prediction that marine aerosols could have an exterior film of amphiphiles; palmitic, stearic and oleic acids were predominant. Thermodynamic analysis has revealed that such aerosols are energetically capable of asymmetric division. In a prebiotic terrestrial environment, one of the products of such aerosol fission would have been bacterially sized (microns), the other would have been virally sized (tens of nanometers). Plausible avenues for chemical differentiation between the two particles are discussed, and the probabilities for the transition from geochemistry to biochemistry updated in light of recent palaeo fossil studies. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 17% |
| Professor | 8 | 17% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 14 | 29% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 11 | 23% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 4 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 17% |
| Unknown | 4 | 8% |
Attention Score in Context
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