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The First Step of Evolution

Jun 11, 2007

Ken Dill, a pharmaceutical chemist affiliated with UCSF's QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, has published research in PNAS that presents a testable model for how enzymatic catalysts formed the first complex living systems on Earth. This foundation for life was built, he says, on chemical interactions that can be explained in terms of the cooperating and competing forces of evolutionary biology.

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