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BioEssays 7∕2018
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201870071
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , prologue , citation , computer science , world wide web , history , literature , art , archaeology
Life, Branscomb and Russell argue in article number 1700179 , owes its existence not to chemistry but to engines; engines of disequilibria conversion. And it therefore owes its emergence to a context that can abiotically provide both the needed engines and the disequilibria to drive them. Only the Alkaline Hydrothermal Vent model of abiogenesis provides that context ‐‐“ Of which vertu engendered is the flour ” (Chaucer, prologue to The Canterbury Tales, 1400).