The Origin Of Life: An Outline of Key Issues and a Case for the Metabolic View - Version 2.0
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This presentation provides an outline and background to the problem of the Origin Of Life, and presents a case for adopting the view that life had a metabolic origin. It includes a simple example of a metabolism based inheritance mechanism. This is illustrated using the SimSoup artificial chemistry simulator.