Alexander Cairns-Smith

Cairns-Smith Crystal Matrix Hypothesis

Bron: http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=13&t=1&m=1

The chemist Alexander Cairns-Smith proposed that inorganic materials, rather than organic, represented the first replicators. The fundamental problem he was trying to address is the requirement that the first "life" (using the term very loosely) had to have been self-replicating. Cairns-Smith speculated that the earliest replicators were not organic at all, but rather were self-replicating crystals that were later....