Abstract
As in Darwinian evolution, population fitness increases among replicating molecules whose propagation rate coefficients form a normal (symmetric) distribution, even when replication kinetics are fractional order.
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Davis, B.K. Darwinian evolution by self-propagating species under fractional order kinetics. Bltn Mathcal Biology 58, 99–101 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458283
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