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@article{scott2014rna,
    author = "Scott, William and Szöke, Abraham and Blaustein, Josh and O'Rourke, Sara and Robertson, Michael",
    title = "RNA Catalysis, Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life",
    year = "2014",
    journal = "Life",
    abstract = "The RNA World Hypothesis posits that the first self-replicating molecules were RNAs. RNA self-replicases are, in general, assumed to have employed nucleotide 5ʹ-polyphosphates (or their analogues) as substrates for RNA polymerization. The mechanism by which these substrates might be synthesized with sufficient abundance to supply a growing and evolving population of RNAs is problematic for evolutionary hypotheses because non-enzymatic synthesis and assembly of nucleotide 5ʹ-triphosphates (or other analogously activated phosphodiester species) is inherently difficult. However, nucleotide 2ʹ,3ʹ-cyclic phosphates are also phosphodiesters, and are the natural and abundant products of RNA degradation. These have previously been dismissed as viable substrates for prebiotic RNA synthesis. We propose that the arguments for their dismissal are based on a flawed assumption, and that nucleotide 2ʹ,3ʹ-cyclic phosphates in fact possess several significant, advantageous properties that indeed make them particularly viable substrates for prebiotic RNA synthesis. An RNA World hypothesis based upon the polymerization of nucleotide 2ʹ,3ʹ-cyclic phosphates possesses additional explanatory power in that it accounts for the observed ribozyme “fossil record”, suggests a viable mechanism for substrate transport across lipid vesicle boundaries of primordial proto-cells, circumvents the problems of substrate scarcity and implausible synthetic pathways, provides for a primitive but effective RNA replicase editing mechanism, and definitively explains why RNA, rather than DNA, must have been the original catalyst. Finally, our analysis compels us to propose that a fundamental and universal property that drives the evolution of living systems, as well as pre-biotic replicating molecules (be they composed of RNA or protein), is that they exploit chemical reactions that already possess competing kinetically-preferred and thermodynamically-preferred pathways in a manner that optimizes the balance between the two types of pathways.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.3390/life4020131",
    doi = "10.3390/life4020131",
    number = "2",
    pages = "131-141",
    volume = "4"
}

@article{gladyshev2015thermodynamics,
    author = "Gladyshev, G. P.",
    title = "Thermodynamics of the origin of life, evolution, and aging",
    year = "2015",
    journal = "Advances in Gerontology",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1134/s2079057015020034",
    doi = "10.1134/s2079057015020034",
    number = "2",
    pages = "55-58",
    volume = "5"
}

@article{barge2017thermodynamics,
    author = "Barge, L. M. and Branscomb, E. and Brucato, J. R. and Cardoso, S. S. S. and Cartwright, J. H. E. and Danielache, S. O. and Galante, D. and Kee, T. P. and Miguel, Y. and Mojzsis, S. and Robinson, K. J. and Russell, M. J. and Simoncini, E. and Sobron, P.",
    title = "Thermodynamics, Disequilibrium, Evolution: Far-From-Equilibrium Geological and Chemical Considerations for Origin-Of-Life Research",
    year = "2017",
    journal = "Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-016-9508-z",
    doi = "10.1007/s11084-016-9508-z",
    number = "1",
    pages = "39-56",
    volume = "47"
}

@article{marsh2022thermodynamics,
    author = "Marsh, Gerald E.",
    title = "Thermodynamics and the origin of life",
    year = "2022",
    journal = "Canadian Journal of Physics",
    abstract = "Modern developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics have significant implications for the origins of life. The reasons for this are closely related to a generalized version of the second law of thermodynamics recently found for entropy production during irreversible evolution of a given system such as self-replicating RNA. This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to these developments.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1139/cjp-2020-0013",
    doi = "10.1139/cjp-2020-0013",
    number = "6",
    pages = "285-291",
    volume = "100"
}

@article{vanchurin2022thermodynamics,
    author = "Vanchurin, Vitaly and Wolf, Yuri I. and Koonin, Eugene V. and Katsnelson, Mikhail I.",
    title = "Thermodynamics of evolution and the origin of life",
    year = "2022",
    journal = "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences",
    abstract = "Significance We employ the conceptual apparatus of thermodynamics to develop a phenomenological theory of evolution and of the origin of life that incorporates both equilibrium and nonequilibrium evolutionary processes within a mathematical framework of the theory of learning. The threefold correspondence is traced between the fundamental quantities of thermodynamics, the theory of learning, and the theory of evolution. Under this theory, major transitions in evolution, including the origin of life, represent specific types of physical phase transitions.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120042119",
    doi = "10.1073/pnas.2120042119",
    number = "6",
    volume = "119"
}

@incollection{crossref2024nonequilibrium,
    title = "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life",
    year = "2024",
    booktitle = "Life on Earth-like Planets",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811295089\_0001",
    doi = "10.1142/9789811295089\_0001",
    pages = "3-14"
}