1. Early assignments of the genetic code dependent upon protein structure

   • David I. Marlborough

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 14

2. A conformational rationale for the origin of the mechanism of nucleicacid-directed protein synthesis of ‘living’ organisms

   • R. Balasubramanian
   • P. Seetharamulu
   • G. Raghunathan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 30

3. The evolution of the protein synthesis system, II

   • Hiroshi Mizutani
   • Cyril Ponnamperuma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 38

4. Operational description of microsystems formation in prebiological molecular evolution

   • Koichiro Matsuno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 45

5. Oligo-glycine synthesis in an aqueous solution of glycine under oxidative conditions

   • Yukio Yamagata
   • Atsunori Yamashita
   • Katsuhiko Inomata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 50

6. Aliphatic hydrocarbons as biological markers in 250-million-year-old rock salt deposits near Kassel, West Germany

   • M. P. De Silva
   • W. Thiemann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 60

7. Role of interstellar molecules in prebiological evolution

   • L. M. Mukhin
   • M. V. Gerasimov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 63

8. Book reviews

   • Gordon A. Rodley
   • Harold B. White III
   • Sidney W. Fox

   BookReview Pages: 65 - 68

9. Chemical evolution and the origin of life

   • Linda G. Pleasant
   • Cyril Ponnamperuma

   Legacy Pages: 69 - 85

10. Corrigendum

    Erratum Pages: 89 - 89