Understanding how the simple molecules present on the early Earth may have given rise to the complex systems and processes of contemporary biology is widely regarded as one of chemistry's great ...

Chemical biologists ... reveals so much about the history and evolution of living systems, but no equivalent form of note-taking exists in the prebiotic era. Ingenious experiments have been ...

This cycle enabled chemical selection ... challenges the notion that prebiotic chemistry was purely chaotic. Instead, it suggests that early molecular evolution followed systematic patterns ...