I discuss briefly the history of the origin of life field, focusing on the “Miller” era of prebiotic
synthesis, through the “Orgel” era seeking enzyme free template replication of single …

The bottom‐up construction of synthetic cells with user‐defined chemical organization holds
considerable promise in the creation of bioinspired materials. Complex emulsions, droplet …

A simple cell model consisting of a catalytic reaction network is studied to show that cellular
states are self-organized in a critical state for achieving optimal growth; we consider the …

Despite remarkable empirical and methodological advances, our theoretical understanding
of the evolutionary processes that made us human remains fragmented and contentious …

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 …

Disclosed herein are systems and uses of systems operating between fully quantum
coherent and fully classical states. Such systems operate in what is termed the “Poised …

We describe a method to identify relevant subsets of variables, useful to understand the
organization of a dynamical system. The variables belonging to a relevant subset should …

Artificial life is largely concerned with systems that exhibit different emergent phenomena;
yet, the identification of emergent structures is frequently a difficult challenge. In this paper …

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 …

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 …