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Origins of Life: Self-Organization and/or Biological Evolution? (2009) 13-22
DOI: 10.1051/orvie/2009002
Complexity, self-organization and the origin of life: The happy liaison?
A. LazcanoFacultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
Published online: 17 September 2009
Abstract
The spontaneous assembly of amphiphiles into micelles and bilayer membranes,
as well as the dynamical self-assembly properties of nucleic acids, suggest that selforganization
phenomena played a role in the origin of life. However, current biology
indicates that life could have not evolved in the absence of a genetic replicating mechanism
insuring the stability and diversification of its basic components. This does not imply
that explanations on the appearance of life should reduce themselves to the issue of the
emergence of RNA or its predecessors.
© EDP Sciences 2009
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