1. Papers from ORIGINS 2011

   • Alan W. Schwartz

   Editorial Note Open access 30 November 2011 Pages: 495 - 496

   

2. Delivery of Complex Organic Compounds from Evolved Stars to the Solar System

   • Sun Kwok

   Origins: from Stars to Life Open access 03 December 2011 Pages: 497 - 502

   

3. Pathways to Earth-Like Atmospheres

   • Helmut Lammer
   • K. G. Kislyakova
   • A. Hanslmeier

   Biosignatures 08 February 2012 Pages: 503 - 522

   

4. Detection of Peptidic Sequences in the Ancient Acidic Sediments of Río Tinto, Spain

   • María Colín-García
   • Basem Kanawati
   • David Fernández-Remolar

   Biosignatures 03 December 2011 Pages: 523 - 527

   

5. Modeling Free Energy Availability from Hadean Hydrothermal Systems to the First Metabolism

   • E. Simoncini
   • M. J. Russell
   • A. Kleidon

   Early Earth Processes 03 December 2011 Pages: 529 - 532

   

6. Magnetic Fields in Earth-like Exoplanets and Implications for Habitability around M-dwarfs

   • Mercedes López-Morales
   • Natalia Gómez-Pérez
   • Thomas Ruedas

   Exoplanets and Habitability 03 February 2012 Pages: 533 - 537

   

7. Habitability of Extrasolar Planets and Tidal Spin Evolution

   • René Heller
   • Rory Barnes
   • Jérémy Leconte

   Exoplanets and Habitability 03 December 2011 Pages: 539 - 543

   

8. Development of a Model to Compute the Extension of Life Supporting Zones for Earth-Like Exoplanets

   • David Neubauer
   • Aron Vrtala
   • Regina Hitzenberger

   OriginalPaper 03 December 2011 Pages: 545 - 552

   

9. Primordial Ocean Chemistry and its Compatibility with the RNA World

   • Jeremy Kua
   • Jeffrey L. Bada

   Prebiotic Chemistry 03 December 2011 Pages: 553 - 558

   

10. May Cyclic Nucleotides Be a Source for Abiotic RNA Synthesis?

    • Giovanna Costanzo
    • Samanta Pino
    • Ernesto Di Mauro

    Prebiotic Chemistry 03 December 2011 Pages: 559 - 562

11. Self-assembly and Self-replication of Short Amphiphilic β-sheet Peptides

    • Valery Bourbo
    • Maayan Matmor
    • Gonen Ashkenasy

    Prebiotic Chemistry 03 December 2011 Pages: 563 - 567

    

12. Enhanced Synthesis of Alkyl Amino Acids in Miller’s 1958 H₂S Experiment

    • Eric T. Parker
    • H. James Cleaves
    • Jeffrey L. Bada

    Prebiotic Chemistry 03 December 2011 Pages: 569 - 574

    

13. Progress in Studies on the RNA World

    • Prakash C. Joshi
    • Michael F. Aldersley
    • James P. Ferris

    Prebiotic Chemistry 03 December 2011 Pages: 575 - 579

14. Multiple Paths to Encephalization and Technical Civilizations

    • David Schwartzman
    • George Middendorf

    Evolutionary Perspectives 03 December 2011 Pages: 581 - 585

    

15. “Hypothesis for the Modern RNA World”: A pervasive Non-coding RNA-Based Genetic Regulation is a Prerequisite for the Emergence of Multicellular Complexity

    • Irma Lozada-Chávez
    • Peter F. Stadler
    • Sonja J. Prohaska

    OriginalPaper 10 February 2012 Pages: 587 - 607

    

16. A Mathematical Model for Evolution and SETI

    • Claudio Maccone

    Evolutionary Perspectives 03 December 2011 Pages: 609 - 619

    

17. Molecular Evolution of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Proteins in the Early History of Life

    • Gregory P. Fournier
    • Cheryl P. Andam
    • J. Peter Gogarten

    OriginalPaper 27 December 2011 Pages: 621 - 632