I elaborate on an earlier model for prebiotic evolution by adding a selection function depending randomly on base-pair correlations along the replicating RNA chains. By analogy with the equilibrium statistics of spin glass, this should give a wide variety of metastable "species" that can mutate or combine symbiotically.
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P. W. Anderson (1983) studied this question.
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