BioCosmos: New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Life

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<p>Highly accurate self-replication of cellular phenotype is a requirement for biological evolution. I previously investigated the degree of self-replication fidelity needed in a viable, evolving population of living cells. Here I present a phase transition approach from non-living chemical complexity to evolving living creatures and illustrate the necessary non-continuity of whatever process led to the origin of evolution. A theoretical approach to the relationship between replication fidelity, survival probability and the capacity to grow and evolve is presented consistent with previous data from experimental simulations. The implications for the origin of life to include explanations for non-continuity are discussed.</p>
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Evidence for Phase Transitions in Replication Fidelity and Survival Probability at the Origin of Life

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BioCosmos: New perspectives on the origin and evolution of life

 BioCosmos is an on-line, peer-reviewed, open access journal that currently does not charge authors for publishing. The journal aims to present a wide variety of novel perspectives on the origins and nature of life that go beyond the standard neo-Darwinian paradigm of biological evolution. The focus is on theoretically innovative, data-driven analysis and experimental results from biology and biochemistry, although broader perspectives from philosophy and physics are also represented.   BioCosmos encourages high quality scientific research and debate, which results in novel theoretical or experimental approaches that deal with unsolved problems of the standard biological theories. To bring about this aim, the journal’s peer review process takes to heart Newton’s ‘Hypotheses non fingo’. In other words, it judges the theoretical claims proposed by authors in terms of the results rather than in terms of how standard theorists deal with the same results. Inevitably, the range of research potentially covered by this journal is very wide. The tableau below provides a sense of this range.   The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, commentaries, letters to the editor and conference reports. Further details, along with instructions for submission, can be found under JOURNAL INFORMATION.   Biosciences:    Systems Biology   Theoretical Biology   Historical Biology   Cell Biology and Molecular Machines   Biological Fine-tuning   Biochemical Complexity   Bioinformatics   Population Genetics   Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Theory   Extended Synthesis   Simulated Evolution   Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics   Functional Morphology   Computational Biology   Paleontology   Astrobiology   RNA World    Physics and Cosmology:    Cosmology and Fine tuning   Quantum Cosmology    Chemistry:    Prebiotic Scenarios   Origin of Life Studies   Autocatalysis   Prebiotic catalysis   Amphiphilic assembly   Astrochemistry    Philosophy:    Teleology and Final Causes   Design Arguments   Anti- and Alt-Materialisms   Systems and Complexity Theory   Category and Information Theory      Archiving   Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in Portico - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections.   Plagiarism Policy   The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process. 

BioCosmos: New perspectives on the origin and evolution of life

Volume 1 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)

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BioCosmos: New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Life

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Evidence for Phase Transitions in Replication Fidelity and Survival Probability at the Origin of Life

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