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On the Question of the Origin and Evolution of the Genetic System

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Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

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In the present paper we have attempted a Darwinian approach to the question of the origin of heredity and its mechanisms in connection with the problem of the origin of life. Our conclusions are based on Oparin’s coacervate theory of evolutionary abiogenesis, on the sociability theory propounded by one of ourselves (Novák, 1967), and on our ideas of the ‘coacervate in coacervate’ hypothesis, discussed at the first ISSOL meeting in Varna (Novák and Liebl, 1971). We have further tried to utilize data on the structure and behavior of contemporaneous subcellular organisms (viruses, etc.) and analogies with the evolution of organisms at phylogenetically higher levels (from unicellular organisms to human society) and experimental evidence obtained from various model systems of individual components of living matter and similar substances.

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  1. Prebiology Group, Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czechoslovaka

    Vladimír Novák & Vlastimil Liebl

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  1. Vladimír Novák
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  1. Departments of Biophysical Sciences and Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    J. Oró

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    J. Oró

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

    S. L. Miller

  4. Laboratory of Chemical Evolution, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

    C. Ponnamperuma

  5. NASA, Washington, D.C, USA

    R. S. Young (Head of Planetary Biology) (Head of Planetary Biology)

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Novák, V., Liebl, V. (1974). On the Question of the Origin and Evolution of the Genetic System. In: Oró, J., Miller, S.L., Ponnamperuma, C., Young, R.S. (eds) Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2282-8_32

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