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Quotes from At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity — Stuart Kauffman

born 1939 United States

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It is not necessary that a specific set of 2000 enzymes be assembled... Whenever a collection of chemicals contains enough different kinds of molecules, a metabolism will crystallize from the broth.

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996)

Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pairing or any other specific template-replicating machinery. Life lies ... in the property of catalytic closure among a collection of molecular species

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996)

One of the most important presuppositions of Darwin's entire thesis is gradualism, the idea that mutations to the genome can cause minor variations in the organism's properties, which can be accumulated piecemeal, bit by bit, over the eons to create the complex order found in the organisms we observe.

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996)

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