The social coevolution hypothesis for the origin of enzymatic cooperation

At the start of life, the origin of a primitive genome required individual replicators, or genes, to act like enzymes and cooperatively copy each other. The evolutionary stability of such enzymatic cooperation poses a problem, because it would have been susceptible to parasitic replicators that did...

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Main Authors: Levin, S, Gandon, S, West, S
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Nature Research 2019