A Strategy for Origins of Life Research [Book Review]
Caleb Scharf, Nathaniel Virgo, H. James Cleaves Ii, Masashi Aono, Nathanael Aubert-Kato, Arsev Aydinoglu, Ana Barahona, Laura M. Barge, Steven A. Benner, Martin Biehl, Ramon Brasser, Christopher J. Butch, Kuhan Chandru, Leroy Cronin, Sebastian Danielache, Jakob Fischer, John Hernlund, Piet Hut, Takashi Ikegami, Jun Kimura, Kensei Kobayashi, Carlos Mariscal, Shawn McGlynn, Bryce Menard, Norman Packard, Robert Pascal, Juli Pereto, Sudha Rajamani, Lana Sinapayen, Eric Smith, Christopher Switzer, Ken Takai, Feng Tian, Yuichiro Ueno, Mary Voytek, Olaf Witkowski & Hikaru Yabuta
Astrobiology 15:1031-1042 (2015)
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Aworkshop was held August 26–28, 2015, by the Earth-
Life Science Institute (ELSI) Origins Network (EON,
see Appendix I) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. This
meeting gathered a diverse group of around 40 scholars researching
the origins of life (OoL) from various perspectives
with the intent to find common ground, identify key questions
and investigations for progress, and guide EON by suggesting
a roadmap of activities.
Specific challenges that the attendees were encouraged to
address included the following: What key questions, ideas,
and investigations should the OoL research community address
in the near and long term? How can this community
better organize itself and prioritize its efforts? What roles
can particular subfields play, and what can ELSI and EON
do to facilitate research progress? (See also Appendix II.)
The present document is a product of that workshop; a
white paper that serves as a record of the discussion that
took place and a guide and stimulus to the solution of the
most urgent and important issues in the study of the OoL.
This paper is not intended to be comprehensive or a balanced
representation of the opinions of the entire OoL research
community. It is intended to present a number of
important position statements that contain many aspirational
goals and suggestions as to how progress can be made in
understanding the OoL.
The key role played in the field by current societies and
recurring meetings over the past many decades is fully acknowledged,
including the International Society for the
Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL) and its official journal
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, as well as the
International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL).
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