title: Life from an orderly cosmos.
abstract: Recent astrophysical studies suggest a high degree of order in the inanimate universe, stemming from cosmic beginnings. This state is consistent with the nonrandomness observed experimentally in the thermal polymers of amino acids that figure as an early inanimate stage in organic evolution. The various stages in inanimate matter, protocells, and evolved cells and the degree of order that they represent comport with the second law of thermodynamics on a cosmic scale.
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D008660:Metabolism; D000069497:Origin of Life; D010455:Peptides; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D010455:Peptides