Fernando, Chrisantha, and Vera Vasas. “Cooptive evolution of prebiotic chemical networks.” In Genesis-In The Beginning , pp. 35-53. Springer, Dordrecht, 2012.
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A mechanism of Darwinian chemical evolution is proposed based on cooptation of chemical avalanches occurring in a catalytic network of molecules enclosed in protocell compartments. This intermediate stage of information transmission would have been of importance prior to template replication and may be necessary to explain the origin of highly complex molecules such as nucleotides capable of template replication.