Lesson 2: Catalytic, Which, System

学习目标

• Distinguish plain catalytic growth from autocatalytic and hypercyclic growth, and explain why catalytic hypercycles are systems of second or higher degree.
• Identify the three prerequisites of Darwinian behavior at the molecular level: metabolism, self-reproduction, and mutability.
• Interpret the selection rate equations under constant overall organization, including selective value W_ii and average excess productivity E(t).
• Explain how mutation-selection balance produces a quasi-species and why the wild-type is an organized distribution rather than a single dominant sequence.