Capillary-action replicator.

Capillary-action replicator.

Capillary action around dental structures.

The capillary action of saliva occurs in the crevices around and between teeth and around dental restorations. Marginal leakage and denture retention caused by a thin film of saliva are aspects of capillary phenomena. Liquids in capillaries isolated from a reservoir showed an increase in surface tension and lower vapor pressure. The strength of thin films of human saliva was independent of ambi...

Replicator Networks with Intermediates

The behaviour of a class of autocatalytic systems with intermediates has been studied. A general chemical model has been derived, and the corresponding kinetic differential equations have been studied by both analytical and numerical methods. Two special cases were investigated in more detail: a competitive model, closely related to the second order Schlögl model, and a mutualistic model, deriv...

Replicator Dynamics in Protocells

Replicator equations have been studied for three decades as a generic dynamical system modelling replication processes. Here we show how they arise naturally in models of self-replicating polymers and discuss some of their basic properties. We then concentrate on a minimal dynamic model of a protocell by coupling replicating polymers with a growing membrane.

Stochastic Replicator Dynamics

This article studies the replicator dynamics in the presence of shocks. I show that under these dynamics, strategies that do not survive the iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies are eliminated in the long run, even in the presence of nonvanishing perturbations. I also give an example that shows that the stochastic dynamics in this article have equilibrium selection properties that...