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Evolution in biological and nonbiological systems under different mechanisms of generation and inheritance.
Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften - 1 Nov 2008
Salazar-Ciudad Isaac
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The majority of definitions of life and evolution include the notion that part of an organism has to be copied to its offspring and that this includes some form of coded information. This article presents the thesis that this conception is too restrictive and that evolution can occur in systems in which there is no copy of information between generations. For that purpose, this article introduces a new set of...
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