From Replicators to Reproducers: the First Major Transitions Leading to Life

A classification of replicators is proposed: life depends on replicators that can exist in an indefinitely large number of forms (unlimited heredity), and whose replication is modular rather than processive. The first template replicators would have increased at a rate less than exponential, because...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of theoretical biology 1997-08, Vol.187 (4), p.555-571
Hauptverfasser:	Szathmáry, Eörs, Maynard Smith, John
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Biochemical Phenomena Biochemistry Genetic Code Models, Biological Protein Biosynthesis Replicon RNA Space life sciences
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