How DNA might have developed; a brilliant new theory (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, February 01, 2010, 14:04 (5205 days ago) @ David Turell

It's very interesting to me that more people weren't exploring this idea... maybe I WAS destined for a PhD in biology at one point.-As soon as I found out about horizontal transfer in bacteria, it kinda clicked in my head; consider that mitochondria themselves are clues that they themselves were a separate form of life, though they live within animal cells. I started thinking that it seems likely that individually specialized cells may have started colonizing together, and over time some of them were able to transfer genes to each other in a way that helped the whole. Not a theory of DNA per se, but it's good to see that I wasn't just fanciful. -Article goes to show a prime example of paradigms at work.

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