ArticleOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life2007
Question 7: the first units of life were not simple cells.
Article in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- The ecology-evolution continuum and the origin of life.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Diversity and survival of artificial lifeforms under sedimentation and random motion.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2017Article
- Why do bacteria divide?Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Quasispecies in population of compositional assemblies.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
- What properties of life are universal? Substance-free, scale-free life.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2014Article
- A model to explain specific cellular communications and cellular harmony:- a hypothesis of coupled cells and interactive coupling molecules.Theoretical biology & medical modelling · 2014Article
- New approaches to the problem of generating coherent, reproducible phenotypes.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2014Article
- RNA relics and origin of life.International journal of molecular sciences · 2009Article
- The eukaryotic cell originated in the integration and redistribution of hyperstructures from communities of prokaryotic cells based on molecular complementarity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2009Review
- The last universal common ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner.Biology direct · 2008Review
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8 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Five common assumptions about the first cells are challenged by the pre-biotic ecology model and are replaced by the following propositions: firstly, early cells were more complex, more varied and had a greater diversity of constituents than modern cells; secondly, the complexity of a cell is not related to the number of genes it contains, indeed, modern bacteria are as complex as eukaryotes; thirdly, the unit of early life was an 'ecosystem' rather than a 'cell'; fourthly, the early cell needed no genes at all; fifthly, early life depended on non-covalent associations and on catalysts that were not confined to specific reactions. We present here the outlines of a theory that connects findings about modern bacteria with speculations about their origins.
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