Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Tue, 04 May 1999 17:00:37 -0700

At 05:45 PM 5/4/99 -0400, David wrote:
>>In what way are Fox's protocells not alive?
>
>The absence of information transmission seems to be the most important
>problem. However, defining what is or is not alive when dealing with such
>things will be difficult.

How about the absence of information? That seems to be a larger issue and
has primacy.
Art
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