Abstract
The principal thermodynamic way of initial living systems emergence from prebiotic (micro)systems has been substantiated. It includes some universal aspects relevant to the origin of life on Earth and other planets. The theories of dissipative structures and synergetics are in the background of the author’s approach that consisted of the bistate and the inversion hypotheses. The bistate hypothesis considers balanced oscillations of a non-living prebiotic (micro)system around the bifurcation point as the intermediate position between non-life and life. Such oscillating bistate prebiotic system tends to dichotomy and characterizes by the paradoxical state “stabilized instability.” The thermodynamic inversion in a bistate prebiotic microsystem following its transformation into primordial living unit—probiont—is considered in the framework of the inversion hypothesis . The inversion begins with the extraordinary high contributions of free energy and information to the system that prevail over the contribution of entropy and launches initial biological process. Both hypotheses are verified by some mathematical models and basic facts taken from biological evolution.
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Kompanichenko, V.N. (2017). Principal Way of Life Origin in the Universe. In: Thermodynamic Inversion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53512-8_3
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