title: Suggested model for prebiotic evolution: the use of chaos.
abstract: I elaborate on an earlier model for prebiotic evolution by adding a selection function depending randomly on base-pair correlations along the replicating RNA chains. By analogy with the equilibrium statistics of spin glass, this should give a wide variety of metastable "species" that can mutate or combine symbiotically.
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D000069497:Origin of Life; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012313:RNA