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Major transitions in evolution linked to thermal gradients above hydrothermal vents
Anthonie W. J. Muller
The emergence of the main divisions of today's life: (1) unicellular prokaryotes, (2) unicellular eukaryotes, (3) multicellular eukaryotes, and (4) metazoans, are examples of the--…
Emergence of Animals from Heat Engines. Part 1. Before the Snowball Earths
Anthonie W. J. Muller
Previous studies modelled the origin of life and the emergence of photosynthesis on the early Earth-i.e. the origin of plants-in terms of biological heat engines that worked on the…
A search for thermosynthesis: starvation survival in thermally cycled bacteria
Anthonie W. J. Muller
In a pioneering study experimental evidence was sought of thermosynthesis, a theoretical biological mechanism for free energy gain from thermal cycling that has been invoked as ene…
Sorption heat engines: simple inanimate negative entropy generators
Anthonie W. J. Muller, Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The name 'sorption heat engines' is proposed for simple negative entropy generators that are driven by thermal cycling and work on alternating adsorption and desorption. These gene…
Thermosynthesis as energy source for the RNA World: a new model for the origin of life
Anthonie W. J. Muller
The thermosynthesis concept, biological free energy gain from thermal cycling, is combined with the concept of the RNA World. The resulting overall origin of life model gives new e…
Photosystem 0, a proposed ancestral photosystem without reducing power that synthesized ATP during light-dark cycling
Anthonie W. J. Muller
Photosystem 0 concerns a primitive mechanism for free energy gain as ATP from fluctuating light during early evolution. The PS0 reaction centers had no reducing power: charge trans…