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randominality  ·  4198 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From Non-Life to Life

    Thermodynamics shows that a) RNA is the only pre-protein nucleotide that fulfill the thermodynamic bound for replicators, b) a random strand 'gas' population of RNA _will_ crystallize to a replicator within ~ 30 000 years in the phosphate activating environment of alkaline hydrothermal vents.

Could you link to any papers or discussions about this point? The work to establish this seems like it would be really interesting.