1. Reaction Behaviors of Glycine under Super- and Subcritical Water Conditions

   • Dimitar K. Alargov
   • Shigeru Deguchi
   • Koki Horikoshi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

2. Prebiotic Oligomerization on or Inside Lipid Vesicles in Hydrothermal Environments

   • Hideaki Tsukahara
   • Ei-ichi Imai
   • Koichiro Matsuno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 21

3. Coding Rules for Amino Acids in the Genetic Code: The Genetic Code is a Minimal Code of Mutational Deterioration

   • Liaofu Luo
   • Xiaoqin Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 33

4. Primordial Coding of Amino Acids by Adsorbed Purine Bases

   • Stephen J. Sowerby
   • George B. Petersen
   • Nils G. Holm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 46

5. Europa as an Abode of Life

   • Christopher F. Chyba
   • Cynthia B. Phillips

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 67

6. Eric J. Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature

   • Alexandra J. MacDermott

   BookReview Pages: 69 - 71