Small molecule interactions were central to the origin of life

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LJK — 5/17/2006 9:25:13 PM (archived)

Small molecule interactions were central to the origin of life

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=19856

"In an important new paper forthcoming in the June issue of The Quarterly Review
of Biology, Robert Shapiro (New York University) argues against the widely held
theory that the origin of life began with the spontaneous appearance of a large,
replicating molecule such as RNA."

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