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Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

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Chemist Lee Cronin challenges AI doom and explains assembly theory, showing how complexity signals life, so you can judge ...

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In regressive evolution, organisms lose complex features and can appear to evolve "in reverse." But evolution doesn't retrace its steps, experts said. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Selection in Assembly Space. (A) Pictorial representation of the assembly space represents the formation of combinatorial object space from building blocks and physical constraints. (B) Observed copy ...

Assembly theory bridges the gap between physics and biology in explaining how complex objects are identifiable as products of evolution and how reusability of parts allows novelty and identical ...