Origin of Life: oil droplets (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 09, 2014, 15:07 (3426 days ago) @ David Turell

A strange substitute for studying how life began, oil droplets.-"Glasgow University chemist Lee Cronin, who led the work, told WIRED.co.uk that the experiment is an important demonstration of the principles that may have spurred nonliving components to give rise to living things. “Right now, evolution only applies to complex cells with many terabytes of information but the open question is where did the information come from?” he said. “We have shown that it is possible to evolve very simple chemistries with little information.” (See “RNA World 2.0,” The Scientist, March 2014.) Cronin and his colleagues published the work yesterday (December 8) in Nature Communications." (as usual, my bold)-http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41619/title/Evolution-in-Oil-Droplets/-No answer (as usual) as to where the information came from. At least they recognize there is lots and lots of information coded into the genome.