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This is the table of contents of Chapter 7, Origin of Life, of my book-in-progress, "Problems of Evolution." See also the main table of contents.

 
7.1	Origin of Life 
	7.1.	Not evolution?
		7.1.1.	The origin of life is the origin of evolution
		7.1.2.	Called prebiotic or chemical evolution
		7.1.3.	Taught seamlessly with biological evolution
		7.1.4.	Common philosphical assumptions  with biological evolution
		7.1.5.	Naturalistic origin of life essential to naturalistic evolution
	7.2.	Evolution has no explanation of the origin of life
		7.2.1.	Life still has not been synthesised in a laboratory
		7.2.2.	No evidence of life of extraterrestrial life
		7.2.3.	The more known, the less seems likely
	7.3.	Problems common to all origin of life theories
		7.3.1.	Origin of the components 
		7.3.2.	Purity of the components 
		7.3.3.	Interfering cross-reactions
		7.3.4.	Chirality (left-handedness)
		7.3.5.	Second law of thermodynamics
		7.3.6.	Aqueous (watery) solutions
		7.3.7.	Simplest living system highly complex
		7.3.8.	Information 
		7.3.9.	The problem of the origin of life 
	7.4.	Problems of specific origin of life approaches
		7.4.1.	Spontaneous generation
		7.4.2.	Time and chance
		7.4.3.	Prebiotic "soup"
		7.4.4.	Panspermia
		7.4.5.	Protein first
		7.4.6.	Biochemical predestination
		7.4.7.	Natural selection
		7.4.8.	DNA first
		7.4.9.	RNA first
		7.4.10.	Membrane first
		7.4.11.	Metabolism first
		7.4.12.	Clay first
		7.4.13.	Hydrothermal vents
	7.5	Search for extraterrestrial life
		7.5.1.	Life in Solar System
		7.5.2.	Life on extrasolar planets