The World Wide Web Home Page for research on the origin and early evolution of life on the Earth. Supported by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. Publisher of the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere. Editor, James Ferris, Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY. Home page edited by David W. Deamer, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95604. deamer@hydrogen.ucsc.edu