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Non-equilibrium conditions inside rock pores drive fission, maintenance and selection of coacervate protocells.
Paper summary
Experiments with coacervate droplets in a temperature-driven pore show accumulation, growth, fission, and condition-dependent selection. Convective and interfacial processes couple protocell-like behavior to nonequilibrium environmental conditions.
Relevance to the project
A comparison for boundaries, resource gradients, maintenance, and external support. Intervene on the environment to distinguish endogenous organization from environment-imposed behavior.
Selection of droplets is not automatically genetic evolution or autonomous life.
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- Reference ID
- doi-10-1038-s41557-021-00830-y
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- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1038-s41557-021-00830-y/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.