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Combinatorial results for network-based models of metabolic origins
Oliver Weller-Davies, Mike Steel, Jotun Hein
A key step in the origin of life is the emergence of a primitive metabolism. This requires the formation of a subset of chemical reactions that is both self-sustaining and collecti…
Dynamics of a birth-death process based on combinatorial innovation
Mike Steel, Wim Hordijk, Stuart A. Kauffman
A feature of human creativity is the ability to take a subset of existing items (e.g. objects, ideas, or techniques) and combine them in various ways to give rise to new items, whi…
Combinatorial properties of phylogenetic diversity indices
Kristina Wicke, Mike Steel
Phylogenetic diversity indices provide a formal way to apportion 'evolutionary heritage' across species. Two natural diversity indices are Fair Proportion (FP) and Equal Splits (ES…
A class of phylogenetic networks reconstructable from ancestral profiles
Peter L. Erdos, Charles Semple, Mike Steel
Rooted phylogenetic networks provide an explicit representation of the evolutionary history of a set of sampled species. In contrast to phylogenetic trees which show only speci…