When1: 1963
When2: 1970
Who: Leslie Orgel [Orgel, Leslie]
What: biologist
Where: USA
works\ Maintenance of the accuracy of protein synthesis and its relevance to ageing [1963]; Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection [1970]
Detail: Freezing can concentrate and align organic molecules to make nucleic acids, such as adenine [1970]. Mutations degrade good working genetic code to make it more varied {error catastrophe, Orgel}, and this process adds to genetic variability [1963].
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