Self-organization vs. self-ordering events in life-origin models

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 211-228

  Abel, David L ^a   Trevors, Jack T ^b  

^a Gene Emergence Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cells; Chaos theory; Codons; Computable cells; Crystallization; Decision nodes; Dissipative structures; Dynamically inert configurable switches; Environment; Evolution; Fractals; Genes; Genetic information; Hypercycles; Life; Molecular; Nucleic acids; Origins; Prebiotic; Primordial soup; Programming; Proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751217712     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2006.07.003     Document Type: Review

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