Accurate phenotypic self-replication as a necessary cause for biological evolution.
Biosystems
; 237: 105154, 2024 Mar.
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Since the Origin of Species, it has been known that evolution depends on what Darwin called the "strong principle of inheritance." Highly accurate replication of cellular phenotype is a universal phenomenon in all of life since LUCA and is often taken for granted as a constant in evolutionary theory. It is not known how self-replication arose during the origin of life. In this report I use the simple mathematics of evolutionary theory to investigate the dynamics of self-replication accuracy and allelic selection. Results indicate that the degree of self-replication accuracy must be greater than a threshold related to the selection coefficients of the alleles in a population in order for evolution to occur. Accurate replication of cellular phenotype and of the molecules involved in genotype/phenotype linkage is necessary for the origin of evolution and may be considered the fundamental principle of life.
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Biosystems
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