Here are recent publications relevant to the “RNA world” conjecture.
- “Did volcanic ‘glasses’ help spark early life?” (popular article)
- “Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses”
- “A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA–peptide world”
- “Evolutionary transition from a single RNA replicator to a multiple replicator network”
Anton Petrov digs into these papers in the following video.
