It has been argued that the historical nature of evolution makes it a highly path-dependent process. Under this view, the outcome of evolutionary dynamics could have resulted in organisms with […]
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Self-generating Autocatalytic Networks: Structural Results, Algorithms And Their Relevance To Early Biochemistry
The concept of an autocatalytic network of reactions that can form and persist, starting from just an available food source, has been formalized by the notion of a reflexively autocatalytic […]
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Leading Scientists, And Philosophers Identify Nature’s Missing Evolutionary Law
A paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural […]