New Scientist

Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began.

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Evolution is Biologically Impossible

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Reading this book, Linked illuminates a lot of hidden mathematical efficiencies of complex systems which show how order can quickly emerge up out of disorder.