Molecular versus biological evolution and programming

Henri Atlan

pp. 137-145

in: Edna Ullmann-Margalit (ed), The kaleidoscope of science I, Berlin, Springer, 1986

Abstrakt

In 1971 M. Eigen published a long paper,¹ launching a series of publications which has provided a sound chemical kinetic basis for a neo-Darwinian theory of prebiotic chemical evolution. At least two great contributions of Eigen's theory to the understanding of biological evolution must be mentioned at the outset.

Cited authors

Darwin Charles