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Life’s Late Digital Revolution and Why It Matters for the Study of the Origins of Life [PDF]

Life, 2017
The information contained in life exists in two forms, analog and digital. Analog information is manifest mainly in the differing concentrations of chemicals that get passed from generation to generation and can vary from cell to cell.
David A. Baum, Niles Lehman
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The Algorithmic Origins of Life [PDF]

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2012
Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what it is that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, perhaps the key property.
Cairns-Smith AG, Campbell DT, Cline DB, Davies PCW, Davies PCW, Ellis GFR, Gesteland RF, Hofstadter D, Kauffman S, Kolmogorov AN, Küppers BO, Paul C. W. Davies, Pearl J, Poundstone W, Sara Imari Walker, Schrödinger E, Segré D, Shaprio R, von Neumann J, Walker SI, Whitesides G   +20 more
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The Origin of Life [PDF]

Annual Review of Genetics, 1974
The origin of life is in a sense a genetic problem, for, as H. J. Muller pointed out many years ago, the essential attribute that identifies living matter is its capacity to replicate itself and its variants (1). Because this uniquely biological property
Horowitz, N. H., Hubbard, Jerry S.
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Sequencing the origins of life [PDF]

BBA Advances, 2022
One goal of origins of life research is to understand how primitive informational and catalytic biopolymers emerged and evolved. Recently, a number of sequencing techniques have been applied to analysis of replicating and evolving primitive biopolymer ...
Tony Z. Jia, Shota Nishikawa, Kosuke Fujishima   +2 more
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Synthesis and Characterization of Amino Acid Decyl Esters as Early Membranes for the Origins of Life [PDF]

Membranes, 2022
Understanding how membrane forming amphiphiles are synthesized and aggregate in prebiotic settings is required for understanding the origins of life on Earth 4 billion years ago.
Isabella Lago, Lissa Black, Maximillian Wilfinger, Sarah E. Maurer   +3 more
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Quantifying the origins of life on a planetary scale. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016
A simple, heuristic formula with parallels to the Drake Equation is introduced to help focus discussion on open questions for the origins of life in a planetary context. This approach indicates a number of areas where quantitative progress can be made on
Scharf C, Cronin L.
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Recent Advances in Origins of Life Research by Biophysicists in Japan

Challenges, 2019
Biophysics research tends to focus on utilizing multidisciplinary technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations to study biological phenomena through the lens of chemistry and physics.
Tony Z. Jia, Yutetsu Kuruma
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Constraint Closure Drove Major Transitions in the Origins of Life. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2021
Lehman NE, Kauffman SA.
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Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life

Life
The pursuit of understanding the origins of life (OoL) on and off Earth and the search for extraterrestrial life (ET) are central aspects of astrobiology.
Kuhan Chandru, Christian Potiszil, Tony Z. Jia   +2 more
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Evolution at the Origins of Life? [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Schoenmakers LLJ, Reydon TAC, Kirschning A.   +2 more
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