Emergence of Life and Earth's Biosphere
Review and analysis of scientific research and theory bearing on knowledge of Earth’s protogeobiosphere, origins and evolution of protobiont complexity, and emergence of life in the cosmos.
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Here are links to websites, conferences, proceedings, research labs, interviews, and discourse exploring enigmas surrounding plausible conditions and processes for the accretion of complexity attending the emergence of life. Witness the dialogical and dialectical ebb and flow of ideas and perspectives swirling around the paradoxes, the unknown, and the unknowable.
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What is Life? (15 June 2022). Robert Hazen, interviewed by Steven Strogatz for The Joy of Why, a podcast from Quanta Magazine.
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American Geophysical Union: Astrobiology Science Conference
15 - 20 May 2022 Origins and Explorations: Stars to Cells
"This conference brings the astrobiology community together every two years to share research, collaborate, and plan for the future. Join NASA and the American Geophysical Union for a robust gathering of scientists in Atlanta and in an online capacity 15 - 20 May 2022."
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Preiner, M., S. Asche, S. Becker, H.C. Betts, et al. 2020. The Future of Origin of Life Research: bridging decades-old divisions. Life 10:20 doi10.3390/life10030020
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Laws of Life
Santa Fe Institute
Evolution and the Origins of Life:
It’s all Connected
AbSciCon 2022 session # 119 16 May 2022:
Emergence of Coded Protein Synthesis
"Biology connects and couples together complex systems, weaving diverse threads together. Co-evolution is nature’s loom. We have evidence supporting a model in which co-evolutionary coupling was well-developed during the earliest phases of biology and during prebiotic chemical evolution. The linkages and coupling that are so clear in contemporary biology between information and metabolism, and between replication, transcription and translation, were not added ex post facto but were seeded at the inception. RNA and protein created each other in an elaborate molecular tango. Information and energy transduction created each other at the same dance."
An international multidisciplinary meeting of scientists to coordinate research on core enigmas in the study of how life emerges to form a biosphere. Presentations introduce the scientists and illustrate their major research initiatives, providing insight into how findings in diverse fields are interrelated and integrated.
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