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Thermal heterocomplex molecules made by heating amino acids, aspartic acid and proline, exhibit an autocatalytic accretion in their aqueous suspension under appropriate conditions of their temperature and concentration.
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Honda, H., Maezawa, M., Imai, E. et al. Catalytic accretion of thermal heterocomplex molecules from amino acids in aqueous milieu. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 23, 177–183 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581837
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