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1,035 claims from 648 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 996 have no check with a result yet.

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Status: Supported ×Field: Physics and Astronomy ×Clear all

2 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Autocatalytic sets of proteins

   Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1986

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   1. Supported · 71%“Because, as M increases, the ratio of reactions among the possible polypeptides to polypeptides rises rapidly, the existence of such autocatalytic subsets is assured for any fixed probability of catalysis.”

2. Physics and Astronomy

   Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction

   Agüera y Arcas, Alakuijala, Evans et al. · 2024 · arXiv 2406.19108

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   1. Supported · 71%“We show that when random, non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise.”