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Why did life emerge?
Arto Annila, Erkki Annila
Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure…
Cause of Chirality Consensus
Salla Jaakkola, Vivek Sharma, Arto Annila
Biological macromolecules, proteins and nucleic acids are composed exclusively of chirally pure monomers. The chirality consensus appears vital for life and it has even been consid…
Roots of diversity relations
Peter Wurtz, Arto Annila
The species-area relationship is one of the central generalizations in ecology however its origin has remained a puzzle. Since ecosystems are understood as energy transduction syst…
The driving force behind genomic diversity
Salla Jaakkola, Sedeer El-Showk, Arto Annila
Eukaryote genomes contain excessively introns, inter-genic and other non-genic sequences that appear to have no vital functional role or phenotype manifestation. Their existence, a…