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Abstract
I elaborate on an earlier model for prebiotic evolution by adding a selection function depending randomly on base-pair correlations along the replicating RNA chains. By analogy with the equilibrium statistics of spin glass, this should give a wide variety of metastable "species" that can mutate or combine symbiotically.Mesh:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6190177 PMCID: PMC394048 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.11.3386
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205