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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution.

Charles D Kocher, Ken A Dill

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Accelerated peptide bond formation at air-water interfaces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charles D KocherLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5186
Ken A DillLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2390-2002

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of life must have been preceded by Darwin-like evolutionary dynamics that could propagate it. How did that adaptive dynamics arise? And from what prebiotic molecules? Using evolutionary invasion analysis, we develop a universal framework for describing any origin story for evolutionary dynamics. We find that

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Darwinian evolutionemergencehydrophobic/polar polymerorigin of life

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PMID39050718
PMCPMC11265915

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