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The information-integrating properties of the hypercycle make it almost inevitable that something of this kind was the forerunner of the protocell. However, as we have seen in the previous chapter, there are considerable problems connected with the question of how hypercycles themselves arose.
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Küppers, BO. (1983). The Evolution of Hypercycles. In: Molecular Theory of Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70544-1_12
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