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. 1991 Nov;88(22):10014-7.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10014.

Two-dimensional life?

C de Duve  1 , S L Miller
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Two-dimensional life?

C de Duve et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991 Nov.

Abstract

A model [Wächtershäuser, G. (1988) Microbiol. Rev. 52, 452-484], according to which life started in the form of a monomolecular layer of interacting anionic metabolites electrostatically bound to a positively charged surface, is examined critically. The model raises a number of thermodynamic and kinetic difficulties.

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