The Emergence of Life: Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life

Preface 1. The conceptual framework of the research on the origin of life on Earth 2. Approaches to the definitions of life 3. Selection in prebiotic chemistry - why this ... and not that? 4. The bottle neck - macromolecular sequences 5. Self-organization 6. Emergence and emergent properties 7. Self-replication and self-reproduction 8. Autopoiesis - the logic of cellular life 9. Compartments 10. Reactivity and transformation of vesicles 11. Approaches to the minimal cell Outlook Bibliography.

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