This essay presents a scenario of the origin of life that is based on analysis of biological architecture and mechanical design at the microstructural level. My thesis is that the same architectural and energetic constraints that shape cells today also guided the evolution of the first cells and tha
After the origin of life
β Scribed by Singo Nakazawa
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 849 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-5342
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