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The Theory of Evolution is Not an Explanation for the Origin of Life [PDF]
, 2010 The propagation of misconceptions about the theory of biological evolution must be addressed whenever and wherever they are encountered. The recent article by Paz-y-Mino and Espinoza in this journal contained several such misconceptions, including: that ...
Clough, Michael +5 more
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On the Evolution of the Biological Framework for Insight
Philosophies, 2021 The details of abiogenesis, to date, remain a matter of debate and constitute a key mystery in science and philosophy. The prevailing scientific hypothesis implies an evolutionary process of increasing complexity on Earth starting from (self ...
Claudio Neidhöfer
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space SciencesPreviously, we presented a hypothesis on the Darwinian evolution of liposomes that relies only on natural and ever-present phenomena: solar UV radiation, day/night cycle, gravity, and the formation/release of amphiphiles in aqueous media.
Ben Turner +4 more
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Field-control, phase-transitions, and life's emergence [PDF]
, 2012 Instances of critical-like characteristics in living systems at each organizational level as well as the spontaneous emergence of computation (Langton), indicate the relevance of self-organized criticality (SOC).
Mitra, A. N., Mitra-Delmotte, Gargi
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, 2012 The evolution of life has been a big enigma despite rapid advancements in the fields of biochemistry, astrobiology, and astrophysics in recent years.
A. Gibbons +46 more
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An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]
, 2017 I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism.
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Life, 2017 One of the key steps in the origins of life was the formation of a membrane to separate protocells from their environment. These membranes are proposed to have been formed out of single chain amphiphiles, which are less stable than the dialkyl lipids ...
Sarah Maurer
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Simple Ion–Gas Mixtures as a Source of Key Molecules Relevant to Prebiotic Chemistry
Molecules, 2021 Very simple chemistry can result in the rapid and high-yield production of key prebiotic inorganic molecules. The two reactions investigated here involve such simple systems, (a) carbon disulfide (CS2) and acetate (CH3COO¯) and (b) sulfur dioxide (SO2 ...
Samuel Paula +3 more
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Dependence of Biological Activity on the Surface Water Fraction of Planets
, 2019 One of the unique features associated with the Earth is that the fraction of its surface covered by land is comparable to that spanned by its oceans and other water bodies.
Lingam, Manasvi, Loeb, Abraham
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Molecular basis of Arginine and Lysine DNA sequence-dependent thermo-stability modulation.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2022 We have used a variety of theoretical and experimental techniques to study the role of four basic amino acids-Arginine, Lysine, Ornithine and L-2,4-Diaminobutyric acid-on the structure, flexibility and sequence-dependent stability of DNA.
Benjamin Martin +7 more
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