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To advance our understanding of the origins of life, we need to identify the appropriate abstractions for identifying universal principles. Thermodynamics was successful in describing the operation of heat engines because of an abstract understanding of thermodynamic cycles (a). In biology, it is unknown whether equivalently powerful abstractions will be identified (b) (industrial engine from [47], fission yeast cells from [48]). (Online version in colour.)
