Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pair… - Stuart Kauffman

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Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pairing or any other specific template-replicating machinery. Life lies ... in the property of catalytic closure among a collection of molecular species

Stuart Kauffman

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Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth.

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Alternative Names: Stuart Alan Kauffman • NK model, origin of life, gene regulatory networks, adjacent possible, poised realm

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