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 …

The Soai reaction and the Viedma deracemization of racemic conglomerate crystal mixtures
are experimental pieces of evidence of the ability of enantioselective autocatalytic coupled …

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 …

An introduction to the fundamental concepts of the emerging field of Artificial Chemistries,
covering both theory and practical applications. The field of Artificial Life (ALife) is now firmly …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …