The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization
The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization
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DOI：
10.1002/qua.560140722
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发表时间：
2009-06
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
M. Eigen;P. Schuster
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作者：
M. Eigen;P. Schuster
这本书起源于一系列的论文发表在”自然科学”在1977年178。它的三分之一是一种逻辑结构的反映，这种逻辑结构可以抽象为三个命题：A。超循环是一种自然自组织的原则，允许一组功能耦合的自复制实体的整合和一致进化。B。超循环是一类新的非线性反应网络，具有独特的性质，适合于统一的数学处理。C.超循环能够起源于一个达尔文准种的突变分布，通过稳定其分歧的突变基因。一旦有核超循环通过类似于基因复制和特化的过程进化到更高的复杂性。为了概括第一种说法的意义，我们可以参考物质自组织的另一个原理，即达尔文的自然选择原理。我们今天所看到的这一原则代表了创造信息的唯一理解手段，无论是从不太复杂的祖先形式进化而来的复杂生物体的蓝图，还是可以通过进化模型游戏模拟选择的有意义的字母序列。
This book originated from a series of papers which were published in" Die Naturwissenschaften" in 1977178. Its division into three parts is the reflection of a logic structure, which may be abstracted in the form of three theses: A. Hypercycles are a principle of natural selforganization allowing an inte gration and coherent evolution of a set of functionally coupled self-rep licative entities. B. Hypercycles are a novel class of nonlinear reaction networks with unique properties, amenable to a unified mathematical treatment. C. Hypercycles are able to originate in the mutant distribution of a single Darwinian quasi-species through stabilization of its diverging mutant genes. Once nucleated hypercycles evolve to higher complexity by a process analogous to gene duplication and specialization. In order to outline the meaning of the first statement we may refer to another principle of material selforganization, namely to Darwin's principle of natural selection. This principle as we see it today represents the only understood means for creating information, be it the blue print for a complex living organism which evolved from less complex ancestral forms, or be it a meaningful sequence of letters the selection of which can be simulated by evolutionary model games.