Our work on a potential prebiotic analog of the the TCA Cycle is out in Nature Chemistry today. Congratulations to Trent and Mahipal! nature.com/articles/s4155…
@GregSpringsteen@4ChemEvolution@FurmanU@QuantaMagazine@NSF@astrobiology@dreyfusfndn@NASA Looking at the byproducts of the Krebb Cycles is like looking at ashes and trying to figure out what was written on the burnt paper! How can proteins Reverse Engineer themselves from them? My Theory Emergent Chemical Evolution is a better explanation without violating physics!