Ferreira R, Tsallis C. On the role of complementarity in biogenesis: a critical phenomenon approach.
J Theor Biol 1985;
117:303-17. [PMID:
4079451 DOI:
10.1016/s0022-5193(85)80224-1]
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Abstract
One of the important steps of the prebiotic stage of the origin of life is the increase in information content resulting from the transition of a random assembly of oligomers into a self-replicating polymer. We describe that crucial step as a critical phenomenon, treated within the renormalization group framework. We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
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