| Article review: Leslie E. Orgel. 2000. "Self-organizing Biochemical Cycles." Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences 97: 12503-07. And Eors Szarthmary. 2000. "The Evolution of Replicators." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 355: 1669-76. |
Nelson, P. 2001.
O and D 39:14-15. CELD ID 11642Abstract
In the story that most evolutionary theorists carry around in their heads about how life got up and running, the cast includes a couple of well-known characters: The First Replicator and the First Metabolic Cycle (call these the Replicator and the Cycle). The articles by Orgel and Szarthmary, both leading origin-of-life investigators, who just how far from reality the Replicator and the Cycle remain.
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