{"678145":{"#nid":"678145","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Life evolves. So do minerals. How about everything else?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast week, Michael Wong and Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science welcomed a diverse group of nearly 100 scientists, from microbiology to neuroscience, for a workshop on how complexity emerges and evolves. It was also a referendum on their audacious proposal, which, Wong said in a talk, is \u201can explanatory framework for the evolution of physical systems writ large, including, but not limited to, biology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s an appealing idea, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/loren-williams\u0022\u003ELoren Williams\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the origin of life and attended the workshop. \u201cTo me it seems very clear that there is evolution outside of biology.\u201d Take the polypeptide backbone, the chain of molecules that forms the spine of all amino acids, he says. \u201c[Biological] evolution doesn\u2019t touch that, right? It\u2019s the same in everything alive. It always has been. But it\u2019s a product of evolution, I\u2019m convinced.\u201d It\u2019s just that the evolution happened before life began, he says. And so when Hazen and his co-authors proposed their overarching theory, he says, \u201cthat just resonated with me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast week, Michael Wong and Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science welcomed a diverse group of nearly 100 scientists, from microbiology to neuroscience, for a workshop on how complexity emerges and evolves. It was also a referendum on their audacious proposal, which, Wong said in a talk, is \u201can explanatory framework for the evolution of physical systems writ large, including, but not limited to, biology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s an appealing idea, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/loren-williams\u0022\u003ELoren Williams\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the origin of life and attended the workshop. \u201cTo me it seems very clear that there is evolution outside of biology.\u201d Take the polypeptide backbone, the chain of molecules that forms the spine of all amino acids, he says. \u201c[Biological] evolution doesn\u2019t touch that, right? It\u2019s the same in everything alive. It always has been. But it\u2019s a product of evolution, I\u2019m convinced.\u201d It\u2019s just that the evolution happened before life began, he says. And so when Hazen and his co-authors proposed their overarching theory, he says, \u201cthat just resonated with me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-04 20:29:10","changed_gmt":"2024-11-05 16:44:24","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/life-evolves-so-do-minerals-how-about-everything-else","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"3028","name":"evolution"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}