Ferreira R, Tsallis C
J Theor Biol. 1985 Nov 21;117(2):303-17. doi: 10.1016/s0022-5193(85)80224-1.
One of the important steps of the prebiotic stage of the origin of life is the increase in information content resulting from the transition of a random assembly of oligomers into a self-replicating polymer. We describe that crucial step as a critical phenomenon, treated within the renormalization group framework. We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
生命起源的益生元阶段的重要步骤之一，是由寡聚物的随机组装向自我复制聚合物转变所导致的信息含量增加。我们将这一关键步骤描述为一种临界现象，并在重整化群框架内进行处理。我们表明，如果从能够形成两个互补对的四种不同单体开始，达尔文进化的多样性 - 选择二元性在这种状态下得以实现。
