Earth Before Life * ⋆Reprinted from Marzban, C., Viswanathan, R., Yurtsever, U., 2014. Earth before life. Biol. Direct 9, 1. This article was reviewed by Yuri Wolf, Peter Gogarten, and Christoph Adami. When originally published as: Marzban, C., Viswanathan, R., Yurtsever, U., 2014. Earth before life. Biology Direct 9, #1. Reprinted with permission under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.