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Evolutionary Transitions and Top-Down Causation
Sara Imari Walker, Luis Cisneros, Paul C. W. Davies
Top-down causation has been suggested to occur at all scales of biological organization as a mechanism for explaining the hierarchy of structure and causation in living systems. He…
The Algorithmic Origins of Life
Sara Imari Walker, Paul C. W. Davies
Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what it is that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect…
Universal Sequence Replication, Reversible Polymerization and Early Functional Biopolymers: A Model for the Initiation of Prebiotic Sequence Evolution
Sara Imari Walker, Martha A. Grover, Nicholas V. Hud
Many models for the origin of life have focused on understanding how evolution can drive the refinement of a preexisting enzyme, such as the evolution of efficient replicase activi…
Life's Chirality From Prebiotic Environments
Marcelo Gleiser, Sara Imari Walker
A key open question in the study of life is the origin of biomolecular homochirality: almost every life-form on Earth has exclusively levorotary amino acids and dextrorotary sugars…