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MINIMAL RULES. "We demonstrate that for a catalytic network to accumulate adaptations it needs to be compartmentalized, the platonic reaction network must have multiple attractors, and some of these attractors must be selectable. The larger the number of attractors, the smaller the chance of convergence." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

MORE THAN THE MOST ABUNDANT. “More than ninety per cent of the universe is composed of hydrogen and helium. Both elements have been around since shortly after the beginning of the universe. Yet, hydrogen and helium together won’t make anything as complex as the Earth, or a bacterium, or a refrigerator, or you and I. To do that, we need carbon and oxygen and nitrogen and silicon and chlorine and every other naturally occurring element. All of the other naturally occurring elements were created in stars.” https://physics.info/nucleosynthesis/ View in LinkedIn

MODULAR VS MONOLITHIC. "Intuitively, modular systems seem more adaptable, a lesson well known to human engineers, because it is easier to rewire a modular network with functional subunits than an entangled, monolithic network." https://lnkd.in/eX5AfaH View in LinkedIn

THE UNIVERSE FLOWS THROUGH US. “We are not in any way separate from the rest of the universe. Instead we borrow a tiny fraction of its atoms for a few years, incorporate them into the patterns of life, and then are forced by the inexorable laws of entropy to release them again.” http://www.science20.com/stars_planets_life/where_does_everything_come_life_and_death_stars View in LinkedIn

NETWORK NODES. "Networks are modular if they contain highly connected clusters of nodes that are sparsely connected to nodes in other clusters." https://lnkd.in/eX5AfaH View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT ATOMS. “The atoms of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus that comprise life on the Earth were once in the center of stars like our sun, forged at temperatures hotter than any hydrogen bomb. Most of the hydrogen atoms in living organisms are as old as the universe, which burst into existence 13.7 billion years ago when time began.” http://www.science20.com/stars_planets_life/where_does_everything_come_life_and_death_stars View in LinkedIn

MODULAR NETWORKS. "Many biological entities are modular, especially the many biological processes and structures that can be modelled as networks, such as metabolic pathways, gene regulation, protein interactions and animal brains." https://lnkd.in/eX5AfaH View in LinkedIn

MILESTONE ACHIEVEMENT. “The ordinary matter in our universe (known" "as baryonic matter) is made up of 94 naturally occurring elements, the " "familiar beasts of the periodic table. And it is one of the stunning" "achievements of twentieth century science that the question of where" "these elements came from has now been answered.” https://lnkd.in/d5GTUVD View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF MODULARITY. "A central biological question is how natural organisms are so evolvable (capable of quickly adapting to new environments). A key driver of evolvability is the widespread modularity of biological networks—their organization as functional, sparsely connected subunits—but there is no consensus regarding why modularity itself evolved." https://lnkd.in/eX5AfaH View in LinkedIn

DEEPLY CONNECTED. “We are not simply in the universe; we are born" "from it.” (Tyson 1998). https://lnkd.in/d5GTUVD View in LinkedIn