| Title: | On the applicability of Darwinian principles to chemical evolution that led to life. |
| Author: | Kolb, Vera M.; Perry, Randall S. |
| Description: |
Chemical evolution at the primitive prebiotic level may have proceeded toward increased diversity and complexity by the adjacent possible process (originally proposed by Kauffman). Once primitive self-replicating systems evolved, they could continue evolution via Eigen's hypercycles, and by Prigogine's emergence of order at the far-from-the equilibrium, non-linear systems. We envisage a gradual transition from a complex pre-life system, which we call the transition zone. In this zone we find a. International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 3, Issue: 1, January 2004. pp. 45-53. |
| Bookmark: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/330 |
| Date: | 2004-01 |
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