Chance and the origin of life

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Dec 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977orli....8..287a&link_type=abstract

Origins of Life, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp.287-298

Physics

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Random chemical reactions in the Earth's primitive hydrosphere could have generated no more than 200 bits of information, whereas the first Darwinian organism must have encoded about a million bits, and therefore could not have arisen by chance. This information gap is bridged by separating reproduction from organism, and postulating a reproductive chemical community that would generate information by proto-Darwinian evolution. The information content of the initial comunity could have been as low as 160 bits, and its evolution might have led to the first Darwinian cell.

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