Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life 1st Edition Stoyan K. Smoukov

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119555523
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119555520
• Author(s): Stoyan K. Smoukov, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon

There is a revolution brewing in the field of Origin of Life: in the process of trying to figure out how Life started, many researchers believe there is an impending second creation of life, not necessarily biological. Up-to-date understanding is needed to prepare us for the technological, and societal changes it would bring. Schrodinger’s 1944 “What is life?” included the insight of an information carrier, which inspired the discovery of the structure of DNA. In “Conflicting Models of the Origin of Life” a selection of the world’s experts are brought together to cover different aspects of the research: from progress towards synthetic life – artificial cells and sub-cellular components, to new definitions of life and the unexpected places life could (have) emerge(d). Chapters also cover fundamental questions of how memory could emerge from memoryless processes, and how we can tell if a molecule may have emerged from life. Similarly, cutting-edge research discusses plausible reactions for the emergence of life both on Earth and on exoplanets. Additional perspectives from geologists, philosophers and even roboticists thinking about the origin of life round out this volume. The text is a state-of-the-art snapshot of the latest developments on the emergence of life, to be used both in graduate classes and by citizen scientists.

Table contents:

Part I: Introduction to the Origin of Life Puzzle 1

1 Origin of Life: Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life 3

2 Characterizing Life: Four Dimensions and their Relevance to Origin of Life Research 33

3 Emergence, Construction, or Unlikely? Navigating the Space of Questions Regarding Life’s Origins 53

Part II: Chemistry Approaches 65

4 The Origin of Metabolism and GADV Hypothesis on the Origin of Life 67

5 Chemical Automata at the Origins of Life 89

6 A Universal Chemical Constructor to Explore the Nature and Origin of Life 101

7 How to Make a Transmembrane Domain at the Origin of Life: A Possible Origin of Proteins 131

Part III: Physics Approaches 175

8 Patterns that Persist: Heritable Information in Stochastic Dynamics 177

9 When We Were Triangles: Shape in the Origin of Life via Abiotic, Shaped Droplets to Living, Polygonal Archaea During the Abiocene 213

10 Challenges and Perspectives of Robot Inventors that Autonomously Design, Build, and Test Physical Robots 26

Part IV: The Approach of Creating Life 279

11 Synthetic Cells: A Route Toward Assembling Life

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