Selection for Replicases in Protocells

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Ginestra Bianconi,

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Kun Zhao,

Affiliation Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Irene A. Chen,

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
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Martin A. Nowak

* E-mail: martin_nowak@harvard. edu

Affiliation Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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