The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization Part B: The abstract hypercycle
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Once a hypercycle is established, it is difficult to replace it with another hypercycle.
“Once a hypercycle is established, it is difficult to replace it with another hypercycle [41].”
From Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems (2017) · cites this paper as [41]
The hypercycle was proposed as a solution to the error threshold.
“The hypercycle was proposed by Eigen and Schuster [22,41,42,43] as a solution to the error threshold [1], a severe limit to the information content of primordial biological sequences.”
From Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems (2017) · cites this paper as [41]
No experimental implementation of a hypercycle has been put forth.
“but no experimental implementation of a hypercycle has been put forth.”
From The RNA world as a model system to study the origin of life (2015) · cites this paper as [153]
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- Authors
- Eigen, M., & Schuster, P.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (DE)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- ORCID
- Schuster, Peter
- Venue
- Naturwissenschaften
- Published
- 1978-01
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-41
- ISSN
- 0028-1042 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-1904
- OpenAlex
- W2333229651
- Cited by
- 702
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 39.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Die Naturwissenschaften (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Cellular Automata and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Systems and Dynamics
- Keywords
- hypercycles, catalytic networks, topological methods, information stability, information integration, origin of life, autocatalysis, information evolution
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