New Special Issue: Origins of life: the possible and the actual

8 October 2025

New Special Issue: Origins of life: the possible and the actual

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B—born out of a Santa Fe Institute workshop on the origins of life—brings together leading voices addressing the theoretical, experimental, and philosophical challenges of understanding how life emerges from nonliving matter. From Oparin and Miller’s pioneering prebiotic experiments to the frontiers of synthetic biology, […]

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