A niche construction-based perspective on chemical evolution before replication and reproduction
François Papale, Yuri Kulish, Joseph P. Bielawski, Louis‐Patrick Haraoui
This paper presents a niche construction-based theory of evolution without reproduction, arguing for inorganic catalysts as units of selection in prebiotic chemical evolution.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology