A ubiquitous feature of all living systems is their ability to sustain a biochemistry in which all
reactions are coordinated by catalysts, and all reactants (along with the catalysts) are either …

Life is more than the sum of its constituent molecules. Living systems depend on a particular
chemical organization, ie, the ways in which their constituent molecules interact and …

The origins of life stands among the great open scientific questions of our time. While a
number of proposals exist for possible starting points in the pathway from non-living to living …

Self-sustaining autocatalytic networks play a central role in living systems, from metabolism
at the origin of life, simple RNA networks and the modern cell, to ecology and cognition. A …

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 …

The concept of an autocatalytic network of reactions that can form and persist, starting from
just an available food source, has been formalized by the notion of a reflexively autocatalytic …

There is frequent confusion about the terms autocatalytic reaction, autocatalytic cycle, and
autocatalytic set. As the use of the same adjective implies, these three systems do indeed …

Systems that exhibit complex behaviours often contain inherent dynamical structures which
evolve over time in a coordinated way. In this paper, we present a methodology based on …

The emergence of self-sustaining autocatalytic networks in chemical reaction systems has
been studied as a possible mechanism for modeling how living systems first arose. It has …