Materials for the onset. A story of necessity and chance

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Raffaele Saladino¹, Giorgia Botta², Samanta Pino³, Giovanna Costanzo⁴, Ernesto Di Mauro^5,*

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¹ Dipartimento di Agrobiologia ed Agrochimica , Universita della Tuscia, Via San Camillo De Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

² Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche, University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

³ Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Charles Darwin, “Sapienza” Universita di Roma, P.leAldo Moro, 5, Rome 00185, Italy

⁴ Istituto di Biologia e e Patologia Molecolari, CNR, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, Rome 00185, Italy

⁵ Istituto Pasteur “Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti”, Italy

Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2013, 18(4), 1275–1289; https://doi.org/10.2741/4179

Published: 1 June 2013

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Abstract

We review the reactions that take place in the HCN/NH2COH/catalysts system. In a vision of origin-oflife as emergence of new properties in complexity, the effectiveness of HCN/NH2COH chemistry is so robust and variegate to look unreasonable. In a logic close to Occamian simplicity, this chemistry embodies necessity. The evolution of the necessary fruits of this chemistry towards organismic level entails Darwinism. The role of chance enters into the process as an answer to evolving environments.

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Non-definition of life

Origin Of Coordinated Reactions

Formamide

Metabolism

RNA

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