Life's order, complexity, organization, and its thermodynamic-holistic imperatives

Life

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 323-363

  Egel, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agglutinative hydrophobic interactions; Far from equilibrium thermodynamics; Hyper coupling between separate sequence spaces; Metabolic replicative hypercycles; Origin of life; Phase separated catalytic microspheres

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894340219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life2040323     Document Type: Article

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