Mutual catalysis in sets of prebiotic organic molecules: Evolution through computer simulated chemical kinetics

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 249, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 558-564

  Segre D ^a   Pilpel, Y ^a   Lancet, D ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Origins of life; Primordial self replication; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS;

GRADED AUTOCATALYSIS REPLICATION DOMAIN MODEL; ORIGINS OF LIFE; PRIMORDIAL SELF REPLICATION; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0032000736     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00516-5     Document Type: Article

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