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The evolution of the chemoton

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:488607
Date January 2005
CreatorsFernando, Chrisantha
PublisherUniversity of Sussex
Source SetsEthos UK
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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