The origin and early evolution of life: prebiotic chemistry, the pre-RNA world, and time.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Cell

• Publication date

  1996-06-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81263-5PMID 8681375
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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