XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life : July 16-21, 2017, UC San Diego, California, USA

Abstract

Some of the principle aims and goals of the conference are to: Understand how organic matter involved in this transition could have been formed and transitioned to a living system; Share new results regarding the physico-chemical environments on the early Earth; Exchange studies on the evolution of life at its earliest stages and identify the traces left in the geological record; Check the possibility that a similar process could have evolved in other places of the solar system or exoplanets; Consider the philosophical and historical issues associated with the developments of these research approaches.