1. Origin and Evolution of Life

3. Electric discharges can generate organic molecules

6. The Murchison meteorite contains organic molecules e.g. D- and L- amino acids

7. Ribozymes and introns may be relics of an RNA world Peptide bond formation in ribosomes

8. Directed evolution: Artificial RNAs can polymerize ribonucleotides in vitro

9. Primordial replicases: RNAs may catalyze its own replication

10. A putative RNA replicase cycle

11. No Darwinian evolution outside of compartments

12. Compartmentalization may lead to accumulation of improved RNA replicases

14. A synthetic minimal genome

15. Living bacteria that harbor a synthetic minimal genome