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Option 1
De novo article; doesn't currently exist. Similar to Primordial Soup page, but not identical. Will focus on connecting Darwin's original idea to the modern understandings of early earth environments and prebiotic chemistry, and will link to it in the Abiogenesis and Charles Darwin pages.
 * Warm Little Pond


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Bada JL, Korenaga J. Exposed Areas Above Sea Level on Earth >3.5 Gyr Ago: Implications for Prebiotic and Primitive Biotic Chemistry. Life (Basel). 2018 Nov 4;8(4):55. doi: 10.3390/life8040055. PMID: 30400350; PMCID: PMC6316429. Brouwers, L. (2012, February 16). Did life evolve in a `Warm little pond’? Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/did-life-evolve-in-a-warm-little-pond/ Haldane, J. B. S., Watts, C. A., &amp; Haldane, J. B. S. (1929). The Origin of Life. In The rationalist annual, 1929 (pp. 9–19). Fiore, M., & Cleaves, H. (2022). The Miller–Urey Experiment’s Impact on Modern Approaches to Prebiotic Chemistry. In Prebiotic Chemistry and life’s origin (pp. 165–176). essay, Royal society of chemistry. Korenaga, J. (2021a). Was there land on the early earth? Life, 11(11), 1142. https://doi.org/10.3390/life11111142 Liu, Z., Wu, L.-F., Kufner, C., Sasselov, D. D., Fischer, W., & Sutherland, J. (2021). Prebiotic photoredox synthesis from carbon dioxide and sulfite. Nature Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13692772 Oparin, A. I. (1953). The origin of life: Transl. with annot. by Sergius Morgulis. Dover Publ. Plaxco, K. W., Groß, M., &amp; Plaxco, K. (2021). Primordial Soup. In Astrobiology: A brief introduction (pp. 97–139). essay, Johns Hopkins University Press. Pearce, B. K., Pudritz, R. E., Semenov, D. A., & Henning, T. K. (2017). Origin of the RNA world The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(43), 11327–11332.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710339114 Peretó, Juli; Bada, Jeffrey L.; Lazcano, Antonio (2009). "Charles Darwin and the Origin of Life". Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 39 (5) 395–406. doi10.1007/s11084-009-9172-7 Schulze-Makuch, D. (2017, October 30). Back to Darwin’s Warm little pond. Smithsonian.com. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/back-darwins-warm-little-pond-180967008/ Sleep, N. H. (2018). Geological and geochemical constraints on the origin and evolution of life. Astrobiology, 18(9), 1199–1219. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2017.1778 Robertson, M. P., & Miller, S. L. (1995). An efficient prebiotic synthesis of cytosine and uracil. Nature, 377(6546), 257–257. https://doi.org/10.1038/377257a0 Walton, C., Rimmer, P. B., & Shorttle, O. (2021). Can Prebiotic reaction systems survive in the wild? an interference chemistry approach. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-4p7pq-v2 Westall, F., Brack, A., Fairén, A. G., & Schulte, M. D. (2023). Setting the geological scene for the origin of life and continuing open questions about its emergence. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.1095701

Option 2

 * Entropy and life; specifically the sections "Entropy and the origin of life" and "Entropy and the search for extraterrestrial life":

Doesn't mention most recent quantitative work in treating chemical disequilibria as biosignatures. Also needs additional diagrams and could be more concise; I would add a small discussion of methanosarcina barkeri's metabolism as well.
 * Article Evaluation


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Assael, M. J., Maitland, G. C., Maskow, T., von Stockar, U., Wakeham, W. A., & Will, S. (2022). Biothermodynamics. Commonly Asked Questions in Thermodynamics, 399–425. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429329524-8

J. Krissansen-Totton, S. Olson, D. C. Catling. Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life, Science Advances, 4, eaao5747, 2018. J. Krissansen-Totton, D. Bergsman, D. C. Catling, On detecting biospheres from chemical disequilibrium in planetary atmospheres, Astrobiology 16, 39-67, 2016. Lovelock, James (1979). GAIA – A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-286218-1. M., S. I. W., Cockell, C. S., Leach, S., & Pascal, R. Life, metabolism, and energy. In Astrochemistry and astrobiology, 243-269, 2013. N. Wogan & D. C. Catling. When is chemical disequilibrium in Earth-like planetary atmospheres a biosignature versus an anti-biosignature? Disequilibria from dead to living worlds. Astrophysical Journal 892, 197, 2020. Neubeck, A., McMahon, S., Stüeken, E., & Gardiner, N. The Geological Platform for the Origin of Life on Earth. In Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life, 63–86, 2021. Özilgen, M., & Sorgüven, E. (2017). Biothermodynamics: Principles and applications. CRC Press. Stockar, U. von. (2013). Biothermodynamics: The role of thermodynamics in biochemical engineering. EFPL Press. Stockar, U. von. (2010). Biothermodynamics of live cells: A tool for biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering. Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 35(4). https://doi.org/10.1515/jnetdy.2010.024