From prelife to life: How chemical kinetics become evolutionary dynamics

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2088-2096

  Chen, Irene A ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; KINETICS; RNA; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84871302801     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar2002683     Document Type: Article

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