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"EARLY-EARTH molecular systems are of interest due to their relatively simple replication mechanisms, gene multiplicity, and the blurring of the genotype-phenotype boundary." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

"SUB-POPULATIONS. These are species which persist in the community in fairly large numbers. These sub-populations are nearly always wiped out when a new epoch begins, demonstrating the biological phenomenon of selective sweeps." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS. "Collectively, our results provide a more plausible abiotic explanation for the unusual properties of purported nanobacteria." https://lnkd.in/dvNtRzz View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR EXTINCTION. "All trials end when no molecules exist in the system. This occurs when there is a catastrophic decline in replicating molecules. The common cause of this is when a new ‘parasitic’ molecule arises that is 1) incapable of replicating itself, and 2) copied by the incumbent replicase at a higher rate than the replicase." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

PRIONS ALSO WITHSTAND RADIATION. "The scrapie agent had been found to be extremely resistant to inactivation by UV and ionizing radiation, as was later shown for the CJD agent." https://lnkd.in/dbGy5FS View in LinkedIn

GIGANTISM. "The largest species (global giants) in all categories are of post-Paleozoic age. Gigantism at this level appeared tens to hundreds of millions of years after mass extinctions and long after the origins of clades in which it evolved.” https://lnkd.in/dv_ZqB3 View in LinkedIn

PREHISTORIC GIGANTISM. https://lnkd.in/dfVpM2x View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE ponders the issue of gigantism during certain periods of evolution, when insects, plants, and animals gained enormous sizes. Our focus this weekend is on giant insects and why they arose. We grew up learning that insects are at their physiological limit today, due to their respiratory system, so how were ancient insects so big? How were they differently adapted to overcome their plumbing? And were they structurally different so that they could carry a greater body mass on delicate wings? View in LinkedIn

STEEN RASMUSSEN: "Professor Rasmussen is currently the Head of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), a Research Director at the Department for Physics and Chemistry at University of Southern Denmark, External Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, USA, as well as Principle Investigator for the upstart of the Initiative for Society, and Policy (ISSP) in Denmark." https://lnkd.in/dnUNrjM View in LinkedIn

"THE SWARM CHEMISTRY world has become capable of producing fully autonomous ecological and evolutionary behaviors of self-organized “super-organisms” made of a number of swarming particles. With a finite amount of resources (i.e., fixed number of particles) provided in a closed environment, we have observed behaviors of those macroscopic patterns that could be interpreted in ecological/evolutionary terms, such as reproduction, chasing, and predation, all emerging out of local interactions among individual particles." https://lnkd.in/dZz238a View in LinkedIn