Publications
Origin of life
Book
Eric Smith and Harold Morowitz, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere (Cambridge, London, 2016)
Articles
Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, Metabolic evolution of a deep-branching hyperthermophilic chemoautotrophic bacterium, PLoS ONE. 9:e87950 (2014) PDF
Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, The compositional and evolutionary logic of metabolism, Phys. Biol. 10:011001 (2013) PDF
Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, The emergence and early evolution of biological carbon fixation, PLoS Comp. Biol. 8:e1002455 (2012) PDF
Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, and Eric Smith, Ligand field theory and the origin of life as an emergent feature of the periodic table of the elements, Biol. Bull. 219:1--6 (2010) PDF
Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, The autotrophic origins paradigm and small-molecule organocatalysis. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 40:397--402 (2010) PDF
Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Confederacy based on synthetic-pathway and bio-energetic modularity. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 40:467--475 (2010) PDF
Harold J. Morowitz and Eric Smith, Energy flow and the organization of life. Complexity 13:51--59 (2007) PDF
Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, The origin of the RNA world: Co-evolution of genes and metabolism. Bioorganic Chemistry 35:430--443 (2007) PDF
Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, A mechanism for the association of amino acids with their codons and the origin of the genetic code. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 102:4442--4447(2005) PDF
Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Universality in intermediary metabolism. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 101:13168--13173 (2004) PDF
Book chapters
Eric Smith, Emergent order in processes: the interplay of complexity, robustness, correlation, and hierarchy in the biosphere. for The self-organizing universe: cosmology, biology, and the rise of complexity, Charles Lineweaver, Paul Davies, and
Michael Ruse eds. (Cambridge, MA 2012. Cambridge U.~Press, in press)
Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, The emergence of sparse metabolic networks, in Abiogenesis and the origins of life, Michael, Russell, ed. (Cosmo. Sci. Publishers, Cambridge, MA, 2010) p.175--191
Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, and Shelley D. Copley, Core metabolism as a self-organizing system. in Steen Rasmussen, Norman Packard, and Marc Bedau, editors, Protocells: Bridging nonliving and living matter (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2009), p. 433--460
Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Framing the question of fine-tuning for intermediary metabolism. in John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland, and Charles L. Harper, editors, Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (Cambridge U. Press, San Francisco, CA., 2007). p. 384--420
Essays and semipopular
James Trefil, Harold J. Morowitz, and Eric Smith, The Origin of LIfe, American Scientist 97:206--213 PDF
Harold J. Morowitz, Eric Smith, and Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Selfish metabolism. Complexity 14:7--9 (2009) PDF
Eric Smith, Before Darwin, The Scientist 22:32--38 (2008)
Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Harold J. Morowitz, and Eric Smith, Essential amino acids, from LUCA to Lucy. Complexity 13:8--9 (2008) PDF
Lokesh Joshi, Eric Smith , and Harold J. Morowitz, Glycobiology: the sweet language of life, complexity, and morphogenesis. Complexity 12:9--10 (2007)
Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, and Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Experimental search for the minimal organisms and the last universal common ancestor. Complexity 12:11--12(2007) PDF
Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, and Eric Smith, The swiss army knife of biological catalysis. Complexity 11:9--10 (2006) PDF
Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Shelley D. Copley, and Eric Smith, The simplest enzyme revisited. Complexity 10:12--13 (2005) PDF
