The Origin of Genetic Information

1981/04/01 by Manfred Eigen, W. C. Gardiner, William Gardiner +3 · 10 citations
Arts and Humanities · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Evolution and Science Education #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #History of Science and Medicine

paper · doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0481-88

crossref issued 1981/04/01 · crossref published 1981/04/01 · crossref published-print 1981/04/01 · openalex publication_date 1981/04/01 · crossref created 2010/02/24 · crossref deposited 2021/01/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07

Cited by

• Unified perspective on proteins: A physics approach
• Chaos and reliability in balanced spiking networks with temporal drive
• Population Biology of the First Replicators: On the Origin of the Genotype, Phenotype and Organism
• RNA Virus Populations as Quasispecies
• Origin of sex
• Rapid Evolution of RNA Genomes
• Were the first organisms heat engines? A new model for biogenesis and the early evolution of biological energy conversion
• Origin of life: The RNA world
• Natural selection [wikipedia]
• RNA world [wikipedia]