The scientific origin of life: Considerations on the evolution of information, leading to an alternative proposal for explaining the origin of the cell, a semantically closed system

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 901, Issue , 2000, Pages 139-147

  Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOGENESIS; CELL; CELL DIVISION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION; NATURAL SELECTION; SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0034019442     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06273.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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