Monomer Abundance Distribution Patterns as a Universal Biosignature: Examples from Terrestrial and Digital Life

Abundance patterns of terrestrial isopods along an urbanization gradient

Robust monomer-distribution biosignatures in evolving digital biota.

Because organisms synthesize component molecules at rates that reflect those molecules' adaptive utility, we expect a population of biota to leave a distinctive chemical signature on its environment that is anomalous given the local (abiotic) chemistry. We observe the same effect in the distribution of computer instructions used by an evolving population of digital organisms, and we characteriz...

Universal Logic as a Science of Patterns

This article addresses Béziau’s [11] vision that universal logic should be capable of helping other fields of knowledge to build the right logic for the right situation, and that for some disciplines mathematical abstract conceptualization is more appropriate than symbolic formalization. Hertz’s [67] diagrams of logical inference patterns are formalized and extended to present the universal log...

Toward a List of Molecules as Potential Biosignature Gases for the Search for Life on Exoplanets and Applications to Terrestrial Biochemistry.

UNLABELLED Thousands of exoplanets are known to orbit nearby stars. Plans for the next generation of space-based and ground-based telescopes are fueling the anticipation that a precious few habitable planets can be identified in the coming decade. Even more highly anticipated is the chance to find signs of life on these habitable planets by way of biosignature gases. But which gases should we s...

Systematic Paleontology, Distribution and Abundance of Cenozoic Benthic Foraminifera from Kish Island, Persian Gulf, Iran

Abstract Foraminifera are one of the most important fossil microorganisms in the Persian Gulf. During micropaleontological investigations in 5 sampling stations around the Kish Island, 14 genera and 15 species of dead Cenozoic benthic foraminifera were determined and described. Next to these assemblages, other organisms, such as microgastropods and spines of echinids were also looked into. In ...