ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Evolution at the Origins of Life?
Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Emergence of Life in the Light of Evolution.ArXiv · 2026Article
- Extracellular Vesicles Associated Metabolites as Intercellular Signalling Mediators in Disease and Therapy.Metabolites · 2026Review
- Polyacid Solutions as an Analogue of a Neural Network.Polymers · 2026Article
- Thermodynamic consistency of autocatalytic cycles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Neural network properties of hydrophilic polymers as a key for development of the general theory of evolution.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Global warming and obesity: External heat exposure as a modulator of energy balance.FASEB bioAdvances · 2025Review
- Various Viewpoints to Investigate the Origins of Life Are Needed.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
The role of evolutionary theory at the origin of life is an extensively debated topic. The origin and early development of life is usually separated into a prebiotic phase and a protocellular phase, ultimately leading to the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Most likely, the Last Universal Common Ancestor was subject to Darwinian evolution, but the question remains to what extent Darwinian evolution applies to the prebiotic and protocellular phases. In this review, we reflect on the current status of evolutionary theory in origins of life research by bringing together philosophy of science, evolutionary biology, and empirical research in the origins field. We explore the various ways in which evolutionary theory has been extended beyond biology; we look at how these extensions apply to the prebiotic development of (proto)metabolism; and we investigate how the terminology from evolutionary theory is currently being employed in state-of-the-art origins of life research. In doing so, we identify some of the current obstacles to an evolutionary account of the origins of life, as well as open up new avenues of research.
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