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New theory addresses how life on Earth arose from the primordial muck
11/01/2017 09:30:00 PM 

Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists and biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Auckland. Their "peptide-RNA" hypothesis contradicts the widely-held "RNA-world" hypothesis, which states that life originated from nucleic acids and only later evolved to include proteins.

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Re: New theory addresses how life on Earth arose from the primordial muck
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2017, 03:22:17 am »
I'm still stuck in it!
(the "primordial muck", that is)