Tag: Stanley Miller
Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.
Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution.
Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life
Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth.
Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment
Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds.
Frankenstein and His Offspring
“Abiogenesis” seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life.