ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
The origin of heredity in protocells.
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Abstract
Here we develop a computational model that examines one of the first major biological innovations-the origin of heredity in simple protocells. The model assumes that the earliest protocells were autotrophic, producing organic matter from CO
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