Hypotheses and dilemmas around the origin and uniqueness of life

• Authors: Andrzej B. Legocki
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The emergence of life on Earth and its almost infinite diversity, reflected by a myriad of living organisms, are among the dilemmas that have forever fascinated scientists and philosophers. Today, we are still not able to determine what exactly initiated the chain of events leading to the rise of life – the mechanism of replication of initial structures or perhaps the occurrence of first metabolic reactions. Further approximations of these issues shall probably constitute an overwhelming driving force for future development of life sciences.

Keywords

PL

EN

origin of replication; chemical evolution

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2020

online

2020-08-12

Contributors

author

Andrzej B. Legocki