Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

Three new papers refute claims for the assembly theory of molecular complexity being claimed as a new "theory of everything." First publicly posited in 2017, assembly theory is a hypothesis concerning ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it. Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, says ...

The search for life on other planets relies, for lack of a better alternative, on what we know on Earth. However, this situation could make us blind to radically different forms of life, thus limiting ...

Assembly theory bridges the gap between physics and biology in explaining how complex objects are identifiable as products of evolution and how reusability of parts allows novelty and identical ...