1. Commentary

   OriginalPaper Pages: V - V

2. The Diffuse Interstellar Bands: A Tracer For Organics In The Diffuse Interstellar Medium?

   • Farid Salama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 364

3. Extraterrestrial Organic Matter: A review

   • William M. Irvine

   OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 383

4. Carbonaceous Micrometeorites and the Origin of Life

   • Michel Maurette

   OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 412

5. A Search for Extraterrestrial Amino Acids in Carbonaceous Antarctic Micrometeorites

   • Karen L. F. Brinton
   • Cécile Engrand
   • Michel Maurette

   OriginalPaper Pages: 413 - 424

6. Observation of Indigenous Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in ‘Giant’ carbonaceous Antarctic Micrometeorites

   • S. J. Clemett
   • X. D. F. Chillier
   • G. Kurat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 448

7. Biogenic Catalysis of Soil Formation on Mars?

   • Janice L. Bishop

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 459

8. Structural Investigations of Hydrogen Cyanide Polymers: New Insights Using TMAH Thermochemolysis/GC-MS

   • Robert D. Minard
   • Patrick G. Hatcher
   • Clifford N. Matthews

   OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 473

9. Biomarkers as Tracers for Life on Early Earth and Mars

   • Bernd R. T. Simoneit
   • R. E. Summons
   • L. L. Jahnke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 475 - 483

10. Formation of RNA Oligomers on Montmorillonite: Site of Catalysis

    • Gözen Ertem
    • James P. Ferris

    OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 499

11. Graded Autocatalysis Replication Domain (GARD): Kinetic Analysis of Self-Replication in Mutually Catalytic Sets

    • Daniel Segré
    • Doron Lancet*
    • Yitzhak Pilpel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 514

12. Photosynthesis and the Origin of Life

    • Hyman Hartman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 521

13. A Fission-Fusion Origin for Life

    • V. Norris
    • D. J. Raine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 537

14. The Role of Gene Duplication in the Evolution of Purine Nucleotide Salvage Pathways

    • Arturo Becerra
    • Antonio Lazcano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 553

15. Evolution of the Structure and Chromosomal Distribution of Histidine Biosynthetic Genes

    • Renato Fani*
    • Elena Mori
    • Antonio Lazcano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 570

16. Functional Phylogeny: the Use of the Sensitivity of Ribosomes to Protein Synthesis Inhibitors as a Tool to Study the Evolution of Organisms

    • Carlos Briones
    • Kostadin Koroutchev
    • Ricardo Amils

    OriginalPaper Pages: 571 - 582

17. A Search for Extraterrestrial Eukaryotes: Physical and Paleontological Aspects

    • J. Chela-Flores

    OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 596

18. From Panspermia to Bioastronomy, the Evolution of the Hypothesis of Universal Life

    • Florence Raulin-Cerceau
    • Marie-Christine Maurel
    • Jean Schneider

    OriginalPaper Pages: 597 - 612

19. About Various Definitions of Life

    • Pier Luigi Luisi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 613 - 622