A quick Amazon search for books on "Chemical Origins of Life" produces a list of 152 (!!) books, the oldest of which seems to be this one:
The chemical origin of life, (A monograph in American lectures in living chemistry) Hardcover 1964
The most recent are these two:
The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology by Pier Luigi Luisi, October 20, 2016
Biochemical Adaptation: Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocene 1st Edition by George N. Somero (Author), Brent L. Lockwood (Author), Lars Tomanek (Author), February 1, 2017
There is PLANT life;
and there is ANIMAL life.
I wonder...
...which one came first?