S. Kato

Auroral Belts as Magnetically Localized Reactors for Prebiotic Chemistry on Early Earth

Most models of prebiotic chemistry emphasize globally distributed or widely acting energy sources, including ultraviolet radiation, lightning, impacts, and energetic particles. However, spatially localized environments capable of repeatedly concentrating reactive chemistry may al...

Environmental Energetics of Multicellularity

Complex differentiated multicellularity entails energetic demands associated with cellular differentiation, adhesion, communication, and division of labor. Here, I propose environmental energetics as a heuristic framework for considering how environmentally structured energy beco...