重新概念化生命的起源。
Re-conceptualizing the origins of life.
机构信息
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
出版信息
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2017 Dec 28;375(2109). doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0337.
Over the last several hundred years of scientific progress, we have arrived at a deep understanding of the non-living world. We have not yet achieved an analogous, deep understanding of the living world. The origins of life is our best chance at discovering scientific laws governing life, because it marks the point of departure from the predictable physical and chemical world to the novel, history-dependent living world. This theme issue aims to explore ways to build a deeper understanding of the nature of biology, by modelling the origins of life on a sufficiently abstract level, starting from prebiotic conditions on Earth and possibly on other planets and bridging quantitative frameworks approaching universal aspects of life. The aim of the editors is to stimulate new directions for solving the origins of life. The present introduction represents the point of view of the editors on some of the most promising future directions.This article is part of the themed issue 'Reconceptualizing the origins of life'.
在过去几百年的科学进步中，我们对非生命世界有了深刻的理解。我们还没有对生命世界有类似的、深刻的理解。生命的起源是我们发现生命规律的最佳机会，因为它标志着从可预测的物理和化学世界到新颖的、依赖历史的生命世界的起点。本期特刊旨在通过在足够抽象的水平上模拟生命的起源，从地球和可能的其他行星上的前生物条件出发，弥合接近生命普遍方面的定量框架，来探索加深对生物学本质的理解的方法。编辑们的目的是为解决生命起源问题提供新的方向。本文是编辑对一些最有前途的未来方向的观点的代表。本文是该主题特刊“重新概念化生命起源”的一部分。
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