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Seventy years back, Erwin Schrdinger posed a straightforward, yet deep, question: What's life?. How could the lifestyle of such outstanding substance systems be comprehended? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical experts both before, and since. Living things are hugely complex and also have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and seemingly purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert subject. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? Have life start with replicating substances, and, if so, what could have led the first replicating substances up such a course? Now, improvements in the growing field of 'systems chemistry' are unlocking the situation. Addy Pross shows how the different kind of stability that operates among replicating entities leads to a tendency for several chemical systems to be more complex and find the properties of life. Strikingly, he shows that Darwinian development is the biological expression of a deeper and more fundamental chemical basic principle: the complete report from replicating substances to complex life is one ongoing coherent chemical substance process governed by a straightforward definable principle.
