Letter published in Chemistry World

The AssemblingLife collaborator Francesca Bellazi has published a letter in Chemistry World commenting on Assembly Theory.

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Sharma et al. 2023 recently published an article on assembly theory in Nature that sparked some controversy. Collaborator on the AssemblingLife project, Francesca Bellazi, just published a letter in Chemistry World commenting on the philosophical flavor of assembly theory.

As commented on by Bellazi, "(t)he researchers make the ambitious claim of having reconciled physics with biology, and the stability of the ‘immutable’ laws of physics with the dynamicity of evolution".

Read the letter here

The article on Assembly Theory that Bellazi comments on can be found here. (Sharma, A., Czegel, D., Lachmann, M., Kempes, C.P., Walker, S.I., and Cronin, L., 2023. Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution).

Published Jan. 11, 2024 3:51 PM - Last modified Jan. 11, 2024 3:51 PM