Question 1: Origin of life and the living state

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 315-322

  Kauffman, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Collectively autocatalytic sets; Information; Random peptides

Indexed keywords

ENERGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; REPRODUCTION; INFORMATION;

RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RNA;

EID: 34548017404     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-007-9093-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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