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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Open Prebiotic Environments Drive Emergent Phenomena and Complex Behavior.

Nathaniel Wagner, David Hochberg, Enrique Peacock-Lopez, Indrajit Maity, Gonen Ashkenasy

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nathaniel WagnerDepartment of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. nwagner@bgu.ac.il.
David HochbergDepartment of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Ctra Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain. hochbergd@cab.inta-csic.es.ORCID 0000-0002-0411-019X
Enrique Peacock-LopezDepartment of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 02167, USA. epeacock@williams.edu.
Indrajit MaityDepartment of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. indrajit.maity@makro.uni-freiburg.de.
Gonen AshkenasyDepartment of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. gonenash@bgu.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0003-0076-437X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have been studying simple prebiotic catalytic replicating networks as prototypes for modeling replication, complexification and Systems Chemistry. While living systems are always open and function far from equilibrium, these prebiotic networks may be open or closed, dynamic or static, divergent or convergent to a steady state. In this paper we review the properties of these simple replicating networks, and show, via four working models, how even though closed systems exhibit a wide range of emergent phenomena, many of the more interesting phenomena leading to complexification and emergence indeed require open systems.

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catalytic networkscomplexificationemergenceprebiotic replicatorssystems chemistry

Identifiers

PMID31163645
PMCPMC6617095

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