On the role of complementarity in biogenesis: a critical phenomenon approach.
One of the important steps of the prebiotic stage of the origin of life is the increase in information content resulting from the transition of a random assembly of oligomers into a self-replicating polymer. We describe that crucial step as a critical phenomenon, treated within the renormalization group framework. We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
D001483:Base Sequence; D004261:DNA Replication; D007700:Kinetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D000069497:Origin of Life; D011108:Polymers / Q000096:biosynthesis
D011108:Polymers