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"COMPLEXITY cannot solely determine behavior. A pertinent example of this is the formose reaction, whereby the incubation of the two simple precursors formaldehyde and glycoaldehyde can lead to the spontaneous synthesis of many sugars, including ribose." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

FITNESS AND SURVIVAL. "Molecular variants capable of faster replication would come to dominate a population, and the development of cycles in which templates could foster one another’s replication would have led to increasingly complex replicators and from thence to the initial genomes." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200325v View in LinkedIn

PHYSICAL COMPLEXITY. "Complexity is not unique to living systems and can be seen in many non-living physical systems as well as in simple mathematical models." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

SELF-REPLICATION. "For nucleic acids, the story likely begins with simple chemical replication, perhaps of the form A + B → T, in which T serves as a template for the joining of A and B." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200325v View in LinkedIn

BEHAVIORAL CHEMISTRY. "When the molecules involved are complex enough to attain a stochastic element to their structural conformation in such a way as to radically affect their function in a biological (evolvable) setting, then they have the capacity to behave, and the analysis of such molecular-level behavior would be described as behavioral chemistry. Behavioral chemistry is derived from two processes, either or both of which can be in operation at any given point in time." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

MUTATION. "The ability to mutate in a discrete or quantized way, without frequent reversion, may be an additional requirement for Darwinian evolution." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200325v View in LinkedIn

MODEL SYSTEM. "Free-living, planarian flatworms represent the ‘first’ class of organism to have a centralized brain with true synaptic transmission, and share the majority of neurotransmitters that occur in vertebrate brains." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

IMMINENT ISSUES. "For example, what happens to the personality and mental content of an adult patient with decades of stored memories when their brain is repopulated by the descendants of implanted stem cells." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

CYBERNETICS. "The intersection of these two fundamental processes has implications for basic neurobiology and engineering of the brain–body interface, for the synthetic bioengineering of cybernetic systems and for the biomedicine of degenerative brain disease." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF INFORMATION. " Biological information in multicellular organisms comes in at least two types: spatial information, needed to create and maintain specific anatomical structures during embryogenesis and regeneration; and temporal information, abstracted and stored from environmental stimuli over time by the central nervous system (CNS)." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn