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The Origins of Life: Old Problems, New Chemistries
Author(s) -
Mann Stephen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201204968
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , frame (networking) , living matter , epistemology , environmental ethics , abiogenesis , cognitive science , engineering ethics , living systems , history , chemistry , psychology , philosophy , computer science , biology , astrobiology , engineering , artificial intelligence , archaeology , telecommunications
Synthetic life : The origin of life on the early Earth, and the ex novo transition of non‐living matter to artificial living systems are deep scientific challenges that provide a context for the development of new chemistries with unknown technological consequences. This Essay attempts to re‐frame some of the epistemological difficulties associated with these questions into an integrative framework of proto‐life science. Chemistry is at the heart of this endeavour.