Tag: Rob Stadler
Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells
Rob Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution.
“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?
Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.”
The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff
Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once.
The Shadow of a Science Yet to Be Born
The paper by Tompa and Rose casts a shadow for us, and we need to trace its outline and derive the theory behind the shadow.