A quick thread on our @Nature paper on Assembly Theory. https://nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9… 1/10 Assembly theory provides a new framework to understand selection and evolution that integrates physics and biology. It redefines objects not as particles but by their formation histories.
assembly theory, a way of differentiating life from nonlife, not by its chemistry but by its complexity.
“This phenomenon, in which components join together to form larger, stable structures having new properties that could not have been predicted from the characteristics of the individual parts, is known as self-assembly. It is observed at many scales in nature. In the human body, for example, large molecules self-assemble into cellular components kn
... See moreTraditionally, science seeks order by understanding the simplest parts of a system. How does a single gas particle behave given a certain temperature? Which gene in our DNA determines eye color? Scientists then try to develop theories that explain more general observations based on their detailed understanding of the individual parts.