Excess Mutual Catalysis Is Required for Effective Evolvability

@article{Markovitch2012ExcessMC,
  title={Excess Mutual Catalysis Is Required for Effective Evolvability},
  author={Omer Markovitch and Doron Lancet},
  journal={Artificial Life},
  year={2012},
  volume={18},
  pages={243-266}
}
It is widely accepted that autocatalysis constitutes a crucial facet of effective replication and evolution (e.g., in Eigen's hypercycle model). Other models for early evolution (e.g., by Dyson, Gánti, Varela, and Kauffman) invoke catalytic networks, where cross-catalysis is more apparent. A key question is how the balance between auto- (self-) and cross- (mutual) catalysis shapes the behavior of model evolving systems. This is investigated using the graded autocatalysis replication domain… 
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