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The Hypercycle: A Principle of Natural Self Organization
Published in Paperback by Springer Verlag (1979)
Author: Manfred Eigen
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The Hypercycle : A Principle of Natural Self Organization
This is a much-overlooked work which provides not only biochemical but mathematical and formal methods for describing self-organization. It presents, in graph theoretical terms, a toplogical analysis of what it takes for a process to be robustly self-organizing. Should be read by computer scientists, as well as biochemists. A key reference for hierarchy theory and autopoiesis.


Steps Towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1996)
Authors: Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, and Paul Woolley
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Origin of life: how simple molecules started to replicate
This is a short book, but full of facts and insights. Eigen presents his ideas about the origin of life, i.e. how "inorganic" molecules started to replicate and fill the earth. The book is full of ingenious new concepts, backed in almost every case by biochemical experimental results (this is something Stuart Kauffman seldoms does: At Home in the Universe is about the same chemical/biochemical processes, but only about consepts, no data to back the ideas). Eigen's book is concise, even too terse. Some knowledge of (bio)chemistry is absolutely required, as the arguments in the book are not just hand waving but show equations and sequences (for those with more verbal approach to evolution, Claus Emmeche book "The Garden in the Machine" gives a good discussion on the relationship between the real life and the artificial model systems used to study it.)


Glinda of Oz: In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Prince Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the
Published in Paperback by Dover Pubns (2000)
Authors: L. Frank Baum and John R. Neill
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Laws of the Game How the Principles of N
Published in Paperback by Penguin Putnam~trade (01 January, 1981)
Author: Manfred Eigen
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Quasispecies and RNA Virus Evolution: Principles and Consequences
Published in Hardcover by Landes Bioscience (15 February, 2001)
Authors: Esteban Domingo, John J. Holland, Christof K. Biebricher, and Manfred Eigen
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