… a self-replicating system in which the entropy of some parts spontaneously decreases, in a
… ; and 5) complex self-replicating molecules can emerge spontaneously and relatively easily …

… A systems approach to the emergence of self-replicating molecules, where different
compound … We now report the spontaneous emergence of new self-replicating molecules from …

… automata simulations which observe spontaneous self-replication (Chou and Reggia 1997,
… evolutionary environment in which mechanical self-replication could evolve naturally over …

… Self-replication is one of the central properties of life (1), and to explain life’s origins we
need to explain how selfreplication arose. It is widely accepted that before DNA, life replicated …

… This chapter reports on the spontaneous emergence of computer programs exhibiting the
ability to asexually reproduce, to reproduce by combining parts from two parents, and to …

… Thus, he showed that “spontaneous emergence of self-… Koza [38] concluded, “The fact that
spontaneous emergence … experiments on spontaneous emergence and evolutionary self-…

… This tendency to spontaneously decrease replicator … self-replicators at the stage of their
emergence from molecular networks can inadvertently be accompanied by the emergence …

… We analyze a recent proposal for spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking based on the …
model for the emergence of homochirality may be relaxed in a noise-induced mechanism. …

Self-replicating systems based on information-coding polymers are of crucial importance in
biology. They also recently emerged … problem of spontaneous emergence of autocatalysis for …

… the establishment of self-replicating chemical systems … In an RNA world, single self-replicating
RNAs would have faced … that self-assemble into self-replicating ribozymes spontaneously …