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LIFE: DEFINITION AND ORIGINS

Tozzi A. 2020. Are Borders Inside or Outside? Found Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09708-7. The inside and the outside of a cellular membrane: different choices, different meanings. Demarcation of living beings, liquid–liquid phase separation , compartmentalization, spermatozoa reaching the egg, gene topology, HIV proteins arrangement.

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2020 Removing uncertainty in neural networks. Cognitive Neurodynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-020-09574-w. Horizontal transmission, Species definition, Species-specific barriers. Homo Sapiens, Neandertals, Denisovians, Floresians, migration flows.

Tozzi A, Papo D. 2020. Projective mechanisms subtending real world phenomena wipe away cause effect relationships. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 151:1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.12.002. Life definition, Inanimate matter’s evolution, life origin.

Tozzi A, Mazzeo M. 2023. The First Nucleic Acid Strands May Have Grown on Peptides via Primeval Reverse Translation. Acta Biotheor 71, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-023-09474-6. A reverse translation from proteins to RNA at the beginning of life?

Tozzi A. 2022. Anopheles' peri-equatorial migration via Coriolis forces (electronic response to: Wu RL, Idris AH, Berkowitz NM, Happe M, Gaudinski MR, et al. 2022. Low-Dose Subcutaneous or Intravenous Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Malaria. N Engl J Med 2022; 387:397-407. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2203067). How do mosquitoes survive during the dry African seasons?

Tozzi A. 2024. Tozzi A. 2024. Flock members experience gas pressures higher than lone individuals. Biosystems, Volume 238, 105192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105192. Collective behaviour is able to modify the surrounding physical environment.

GAUGE THEORIES FOR BIOLOGY

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Chafin C, De Falco D, Today J. 2018. A timeless biology. Progr Biophys Mol Biol. 134, 38-43. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.12.002. A gauge theory for timeless biology: when time does not count.

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Navarro J, Kun W, Lin B, Marijuán PC. 2017. Cellular Gauge Symmetry and the Li Organization Principle. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.06.004. The life from above: a gauge theory of cellular activity.

Yurkin A, Tozzi A, Peters JF, Marijuan PC. 2017. Quantifying Energetic Dynamics in Physical and Biological Systems Through a Simple Geometric Tool and Geodetic Curves. Addendum to: Cellular Gauge Symmetry and the Li Organization Principle. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.06.007. Geometric curves underlying physical and biological dynamics. Chausson’s complexity, minimal bacterial genome.

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2019. Points and lines inside our brains. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 13(5): 417–428. DOI: 10.1007/s11571-019-09539-8. The symmetry of the enigmatic, extinct Dickinsonia lineage.

CHEMISTRY, ENERGY REQUIREMENTS

Tozzi A. 2015. Information Processing in the CNS: A Supramolecular Chemistry? Cognitive Neurodynamics 9 (5): 463–477. Supramolecular phrenology: not just spikes!

Zhang, Y., Guo, S., Sun, M., Mariniello, L., Tozzi, A., & Zhao, X. (2022). Front Waves of Chemical Reactions and Travelling Waves of Neural Activity. Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254050 . Biological effects of front waves in nonlinear chemical reactions.

Tozzi A. 2022. An economic approach to energy budgets: how many resources should living organisms spare? Biosystems. Volume 211, 104584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104584. Ramsey’s economic theory of savings may help to quantify the energetic requests of the living cells.

PROTEIN FOLDING

Tozzi A, Fla Tor, Peters JF. 2016. Building a minimum frustration framework for brain functions in long timescales. J Neurosci Res. 94(8): 702–716. Minimum frustration principle and nervous networks: when evolution dictates our thoughts.

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2017. The multidimensional world. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany. ISBN-13: 978-3-330-03530-0. The Borsuk-Ulam theorem as a general principle for a multidimensional world. Protein folding.

EVOLUTION

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2018. What it is like to be “the same”? Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 133, 30-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.10.005. “The same” in biology. A topological explanation for the evolution of biological systems.

Tozzi A. 2014. Evolution: Networks and Energy Count. Nature 515: 343. doi:10.1038/515343c. Dynamic systems theory and evolution. Epigenetics, supramolecular chemistry, fitness, hierarchical; Lysenko, Lamarck, Darwin.

Tozzi, A. To Know them, Remove their Information: An Outer Methodological Approach to Biophysics and Humanities. Philosophia (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00576-y. Muscles of facial expression in extinct species of the genus Homo.

Tozzi A. 2023. Non-ultrametric phylogenetic trees shed new light on Neanderthal introgression. Org Divers Evol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00613-y. When Neanderthal and ancient humans converge, here you are the modern humans. Neandertal, Denisovans, sapiens, unknown archaic groups and early modern humans, introgression, branching, bifurcation, phylogenetic tree, molecular clock, Out-Of-Africa, Wolpoff’s multiregional evolution model.

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2018. Multidimensional brain activity dictated by winner-take-all mechanisms. Neuroscience Letters, 678 (21):83-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.05.014. Evolutional architecture of multidimensional sensations: the winner takes all.