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Booting up life

Gerald F. Joyce ()
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Gerald F. Joyce: The Scripps Research Institute

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6913, 278-279

Abstract: A key question about evolution is how the first informational molecules — thought to be an early form of life — could generate efficient self-replication machinery. The problem is tackled in new computer simulations.

Date: 2002
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