First Growth, Then Information: The Path To Genetic Heredity In Protocells

Most theoretical work on the origin of heredity has focused on how genetic information can be maintained without mutational degradation in the absence of error-proofing systems. A simple and parsimonious solution assumes the first gene sequences evolved inside dividing protocells, which enables selection for functional sets. But these models of information maintenance do not consider […]
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