Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
Queen Mary University of London
Article title
Evolution before genes
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Biology Direct
Article number
ARTN 1
Volume number
7
Issue number
1
First page of article
1
ISSN of journal
1745-6150
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
4
Additional information
<28>This paper heralds a paradigm shift in the origin of life, making obsolete one of the dominant models, GARD by Doron Lancet. We have shown why his earlier proposals cannot explain chemical evolution before genes. We simulated evolution in an artificial chemistry enclosed in dividing 'soap bubbles'. We find that autocatalytic cores can act as hereditary units. Compartments are selected for adaptive combinations of cores, each core represents one bit of information. Highly accessed online we stimulated the COOL EDGE 2013 workshop at CERN, and Takashi Ikigami's lab in Tokyo is testing our claims using HCN polymerization.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Citation count
9
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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