The emergence of a self-catalysing structure in abstract origin-of-life models
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University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics.
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2000
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Steel, M.
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We formalize a class of abstract and simple biochemical models that have been proposed for understanding the origin of life. We then analyse conditions under which 'life-like' substructures will tend to arise in such models.
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Steel, M. (2000) The emergence of a self-catalysing structure in abstract origin-of-life models. Applied Mathematics Letters, 3, pp. 91--5.
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artificial life, autocatalysis, random combinatorial structures