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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Science@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

Scientists Just Recreated The Chemical Reaction That May Have Led to Life on Earth

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Scientists Just Recreated The Chemical Reaction That May Have Led to Life on Earth

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Science@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago
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How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a...
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    Also this type of research is a real chicken and egg scenario. No one wins because no one knows.

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      The egg came first.

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        … an egg laid by something that was almost, but not quite, a chicken.

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        I was going for the analogy but yeah sure

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          I know what you were going for, I was pointing out that it was a bad analogy.

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