This year we celebrated Stuart Kauffman's 80th birthday. Kauffman has contributed many
original ideas to science. One of them is that of autocatalytic sets in the context of the origin …

It took quite a long time to complete this book. More than 20 years had elapsed since I wrote
my last volume as an author, not just as an editor. And I felt it important to find again the …

Autocatalytic sets are self-sustaining and collectively catalytic chemical reaction networks
which are believed to have played an important role in the origin of life. Simulation studies …

In this paper a new model of growing and dividing protocells is described, whose main
features are (i) a lipid container that grows according to the composition of the molecular …

The growth of a population of protocells requires that the two key processes of replication of
the protogenetic material and reproduction of the whole protocell take place at the same …

The emergence of autocatalytic sets of molecules seems to have played an important role in
the origin of life context. Although the possibility to reproduce this emergence in laboratory …

The conditions that allow for the sustained growth of a protocell population are investigated
in the case of asymmetrical division. The results are compared to those of previous studies …

We present a simple mathematical model that captures the evolutionary capabilities of a
prebiotic compartment or protocell. In the model, the protocell contains an autocatalytic set …

The Theory of the Adjacent Possible (TAP) equation has been proposed as an appropriate
description of super-exponential growth phenomena, where a phase of slow growth is …

An ensemble is a collection of many similar things. It has been hypothesized that life could
have started with water filled vesicles formed from organic matter in meteorites, whose …