Abiogenesis is about the origin of life. Evolution, technically, is about what happened after life arose on Earth. Life origins studies proceed under a number of hypotheses and remain very tentative during this early period of investigation. A recent summary of research is in The Spark of Life : Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada.

Intelligent Life : A high-level course outline on origin of universe and life, including Abiogenesis theories and the rise of mankind.

Radiation of the First Animals: Narrative Index :
A University of California at Berkeley Lecture

The Beginning of Life on Earth : Article at American Scientist

How Life Evolves : from NASA

Pre-biotic Earth : What a Gas!

How the Scum of the Earth Led to Advanced Life: Your scummy ancestors had the planet to themselves up to about 2.2 billion years ago. These single-celled organisms were the only things that could survive on a diet nearly bereft of oxygen.

Thermophiles and Early Life : Because thermophiles are ancient, and because they prefer the steamy conditions that were typical of the early Earth, many scientists think they may also tell us about the origin of life itself. Life at High Temperatures is about thermophiles at Yellowstone National Park. Other Extreme Earth Life Discusses scientists' suggestions that life on Earth may have originated during the planet's earliest periods, some three billion or more years ago. Includes a Chart of Extremophiles. A discussion of earliest known life forms is at Natural History of the Archaea.

Molecular Evolution from Abiotic Scratch : .pdf file. Concerning the evolution of amino acids and proteins. And this is a research publication list by the same author, dealing mainly with the evolution of amino acids and biological molecules. A number of papers are available in .pdf format. They are highly technical.

Exobiology : The search for the origin of life on the Earth, and in the Universe.

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