Selection for growth drives the emergence of genetic heredity in protocells

• Raquel Nunes Palmeira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Marco Colnaghi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Andrew Pomiankowski ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.pomiankowski@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5171-8755

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• Nick Lane

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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