A Field Trip to the Archaean in Search of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond
Life, 2016 Charles Darwin’s original intuition that life began in a “warm little pond” has for the last three decades been eclipsed by a focus on marine hydrothermal vents as a venue for abiogenesis.
Bruce Damer
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Bioverse: Potentially Observable Exoplanet Biosignature Patterns Under the UV Threshold Hypothesis for the Origin of Life [PDF]
A wide variety of scenarios for the origin of life have been proposed, with many influencing the prevalence and distribution of biosignatures across exoplanet populations. This relationship suggests these scenarios can be tested by predicting biosignature distributions and comparing them with empirical data.
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The Roles of Possibility and Mechanism in Narrative Explanation [PDF]
, 2018 There is a fairly longstanding distinction between what are called the ideographic as opposed to nomothetic sciences. The nomothetic sciences, such as physics, offer up explanations in terms of the laws and regular operations of nature.
Swaim, Daniel G.
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Nitrogen heterocycles form peptide nucleic acid precursors in complex prebiotic mixtures
Scientific Reports, 2019 The ability to store information is believed to have been crucial for the origin and evolution of life; however, little is known about the genetic polymers relevant to abiogenesis.
Laura E. Rodriguez +4 more
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Three-stage Origin of Life as a Result of Directional Darwinian Evolution [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 The original hypothesis about Three-stage origin of life (TOL) on the Earth is developed and discussed. The role of the temperature factor in life origin is considered. It is supposed, that three stages of abiogenesis (DNA world, RNA world and the Protein world) consistently followed each other during Darwinian evolution.
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The grid method Beziers – d'Arcy-Thompson in the reconstruction of morphogenesis and abiogenesis: elementary biomimetic model [PDF]
Морфологія, 2011 We propose a new modification made in the morphology of biological imaging methods based on new types of components and nets. Shown its applicability not only in the comparative morphology and evolutionary and systematic, but also in abiogenetic studies.
Gradov O.V.
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Autocatalytic Networks: An Intimate Relation between Network Topology and Dynamics [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We study a family of networks of autocatalytic reactions, which we call hyperchains, that are a generalization of hypercycles. Hyperchains, and the associated dynamical system called replicator equations, are a possible mechanism for macromolecular evolution and proposed to play a role in abiogenesis, the origin of life from prebiotic chemistry.
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Strong Evidence That Abiogenesis Is a Rapid Process on Earth Analogs [PDF]
arXivThe early start to life naively suggests that abiogenesis is a rapid process on Earth-like planets. However, if evolution typically takes ~4Gyr to produce intelligent life-forms like us, then the limited lifespan of Earth's biosphere (~5-6Gyr) necessitates an early (and possibly highly atypical) start to our emergence - an example of the weak anthropic
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Complexity, Information and Biological Organisation [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2005 Regarding the widespread confusion about the concept and nature of complexity, information and biological organization, we look for some coordinated conceptual considerations corresponding to quantitative measures suitable to grasp the main ...
Attila Grandpierre
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Dialogue Concerning Life: Abiogenesis, Biogenesis Or Creationism: Religious Response
, 2021 Peter O. O. Ottuh
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