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EMERGENCE OF EVOLVABILITY. “At the time of writing then, we are still a long way from knowing whether autocatalytic sets offer a plausible model for the emergence of evolvability.” https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IN NATURE is not limited to organisms, nor to cells, but also the very organelles within cells, such as the mitochondrion, chloroplast and nucleus, all of which originated in an ancient foreign engulfment. Their reproduction is rather independent from the rest of the organism's cells. View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR FITNESS. "It has been suggested that "...some autocatalytic sets will reproduce more rapidly than others and hence will have higher Darwinian fitness" and, therefore, "we have evolution without a genome." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IN NATURE is not limited to organisms, nor to cells, but also the very organelles within cells, such as the mitochondrion, chloroplast and nucleus, all of which originated in an ancient foreign engulfment. Their reproduction is rather independent from the rest of the organism's cells. View in LinkedIn

GROWTH OF POPULATIONS. "Originally autocatalytic sets of polymers were introduced to explain how self-organization could provide a complex system upon which natural selection could act." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

MITOCHONDRIA have a very anomalous reproductive life, breaking the rules of Mendel. In large part because they are semi-autonomous, having been derived from an engulfed bacteria many millions of years ago, and today exist in a highly streamlined form with most of their genes having been transferred to the host nucleus. View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION BEFORE GENES. "Our current understanding of evolution is so tightly linked to template-dependent replication of DNA and RNA molecules that the old idea from Oparin of a self-reproducing 'garbage bag' ('coacervate') of chemicals that predated fully-fledged cell-like entities seems to be farfetched to most scientists today." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IN NATURE is not limited to organisms, nor to cells, but also the very organelles within cells, such as the mitochondrion, chloroplast and nucleus, all of which originated in an ancient foreign engulfment. Their reproduction is rather independent from the rest of the organism's cells. View in LinkedIn

DURABLE AUTOCATALYSIS. "A unifying theme in both camps has been self-sustained autocatalysis: Nature's ability to generate copies of a given entity leading to multiplication. It boosted the concentration of required molecules in Darwin's 'warm little pond' (or any relevant environment for chemical evolution), and allowed the increase of replicating (reproducing) units in a geometrical progression that makes the 'survival of the fittest' possible." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn

GENETICS-FIRST CAMP "find implausible the idea that molecular networks without genetic control could have undergone Darwinian evolution." https://lnkd.in/euzMX5X View in LinkedIn