proteinoids


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pro·tein·oids

(prō'tēn-oydz, prō'tē-in-oyds),
Artificially synthesized heteropoly(amino acids).
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In this context we can note Ehrensvard's (1960) concept of a 'living pond' as a first stage in the origin of life, together with Depew and Weber's (1995) view of the organism as a 'superecosystem', along with Sidney Fox's (1988) demonstrations that artificial proteinoid microspheres can carry out most of the coarser behaviors of cells (like cell division), making these processes generic at a certain scale--these coupled to Cairns-Smith's (1982) idea of the 'genetic takeover' of an abiotic system of microscopic informational template inheritance.
The microscopic components--metabolic micelles or proteinoid microspheres, with perhaps the information bearing days of Cairns-Smith--would occupy the original locus of meaning.
Energy and semiotics: the Second Law and the origin of life
At threshold levels of chemical potential and molecular complexity, synergistic relationships were established between proteinoids and nucleic acids within microspheres.
Evolution and Thermodynamics: The New Paradigm([dagger])

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