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Raquel Nunes Palmeira

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintNov 17, 2025

First growth, then information: the path to genetic heredity in protocells

Raquel Nunes Palmeira, Marco Colnaghi, Andrew Pomiankowski, Nick J. Lane

This paper develops a mathematical model showing that growth-supporting functions evolved before informational processes in protocells, establishing a fundamental constraint on the origin of genetic heredity.

DOI 10.1101/2025.11.17.688785

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