Hypercycle
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Hypercycles are claimed as a possible evolutionary precursor to living cells. They are an attempt to show how life can originate by natural process. They are hypothetical non-biological autocatalytic chemical reaction cycles of the substances thought to be needed for the spontaneous generation of life.
They are an attempt to extend Darwinian evolution to the origin of life. The idea is that these hypercycles would build up by mutation and natural selection all of the substances and ultimately the processes and structures of living cells. They are a purely and rather simple mathematical model that lacks any detail. They are entirely speculative, with no apparent real world basis. These so called hypercycles have never been observed in nature or even produced in a lab.
Hypercycles are just another in the long line of Evolutionary just so stories that are invented to try to explain the origin of life by natural processes.
Related References
- Hypercycles by the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
- Quasispecies model by Wikipedia
- What Prerequisites Are Required for the Development of Living Systems? by Peter v. Sengbusch
