Increase in Complexity and Information through Molecular Evolution

Increase in Complexity and Information through Molecular Evolution

Biological evolution progresses by essentially three different mechanisms: (I) optimization of properties through natural selection in a population of competitors; (II) development of new capabilities through cooperation of competitors caused by catalyzed reproduction; and (III) variation of genetic...

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Main Author: Peter Schuster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-11-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
cooperation
flow reactor
hypercycle
major transition
mutation
natural selection
quasispecies
replicator
semantic information
Shannon information
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/11/397

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