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. 1983 Jun;80(11):3386–3390. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.11.3386

Suggested model for prebiotic evolution: the use of chaos.

P W Anderson
PMCID: PMC394048  PMID: 6190177

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.

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