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日時：7月4日（木）13：00－14：30

会場：全学教育棟1号館1－205教室

講師：Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weigand,  Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena

タイトル：　『How did life on Earth begin?』

概要：　In this presentation I would like to give an introduction to the following topics: What are general criteria for demarcating living matter from non-living matter? That question is important for understanding the origin and evolution of life on Earth. There is currently no consensus on what would constitute sufficient and necessary criteria for establishing that a system is living. It is clear that various properties are important, specifically material and physical requirements, requirements with respect to heredity and information, and requirements with respect to system integrity and autonomy. We will evaluate primordial bioinorganic reactions empirically by chemical experiments with the perceived geochemical scenario determining the parameters and we will discuss these primordial reaction on the basis of the “iron-sulfur world” after Günter Wächtershäuser.

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