Dynamic changes in Prebiotic Systems

Walter Riofrio (1)

1 Neuroscience and Behavior Division

This paper aims to contribute with the debate about the causes that produced the emergence of dynamic organization in living organisms. Understanding the origin of living systems is grasping the most basic capacities that are used in the construction of the organization of these systems. It is possible to think that in the prebiotic epoch the conditions should have existed that enabled the development of the rudiments of a dynamic organization containing the essentials for the subsequent emergence of life, a specific type of dynamic that would be associated with the variability of the different prebiotic systems. Thus, we could speak of a prebiotic evolution that brought about evolution by natural selection.

Keywords: open-ended evolution; cohesion; complex systems; emergence; evolvability; far from thermodynamic equilibrium; open-ended evolution.

Domains: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems [nlin.AO]; Structural Biology [q-bio.BM]; Cell Behavior [q-bio.CB]; Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]

Walter Riofrio. Dynamic changes in Prebiotic Systems. 2006. ⟨hal-00140357⟩