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Solving this problem requires an interdisciplinary knowledge and an awareness of conventional theories, especially those related to the origin and evolution of life. Deoxyribonucleic acid, doublehelix shaped macromolecule made of nucleotides. Communication of information from the genome to the proteome 6. Self organization origin of life scenarios and information theory. These theories on information and on coding have been. Darwins theory of evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor. How life abides by the second law of thermodynamics yet evolutionarily complexifies and maintains its intrinsic order is a fundamental mystery in physics, chemistry, and biology. Theory of the origin, evolution, and nature of life.
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