The Hypercycle. A Principle of Natural Self-organization. Part A: Emergence of the Hypercycle

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Journal Naturwissenschaften

Specialty Science

Date 1977 Nov 1

PMID 593400

Citations 515

Authors

M Eigen

P Schuster

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