A functional account of degrees of minimal chemical life.
This paper describes and defends the view that minimal chemical life essentially involves the chemical integration of three chemical functionalities: containment, metabolism, and program (Rasmussen et al. in Protocells: bridging nonliving and living matter, ). This view is illustrated and explained...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89 |
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