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11 - Computer Science and Informatics

Queen Mary University of London

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Article title

Evolution before genes

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1186/1745-6150-7-1

Title of journal

Biology Direct

Article number

ARTN 1

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1745-6150

Year of publication

2012

URL

http://www.biology-direct.com/content/7/1/1

Number of additional authors

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

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Citation count

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract