Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Life On Earth May Have Had An Icy Start


From The Danger Room:

Tracks in ice could have served as a safe environment — much like a cell — for the first life on Earth to replicate and evolve.

A new study adds plausibility to the ‘RNA World’ hypothesis that argues life began with a single stranded molecule capable of self-replication.

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