Tibor Ganti proposed the chemoton as the minimal system capable of open-ended evolution, consisting of three stoichiometrically couplec autocatalytic systems, a metabolism, a membrane and a template replicating system. Our models show that an autocatalytic metabolic system couJd evolve only if chemical and physical niches could be discovered that limited the extent of tapping side-reactions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:488607 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Fernando, Chrisantha |
| Publisher | University of Sussex |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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