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Review | Unified representation of Life’s basic properties by a 3-species Stochastic Cubic Autocatalytic Reaction-Diffusion system of equations

Reproduction, growth, development, homeostasis, metabolism, adaptation, evolution... we could go on and on and never find a complete list of characteristics that define life. However, another question is how to represent those properties using mathematical tools. Today we review an article by Muñuzuri and Pérez-Mercader whose objective is precisely that—to capture the key properties of life using a set of equations.