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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, February 01, 2010, 15:55 (5205 days ago) @ David Turell


> > 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. 
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> The problem, Matt, is to have the 'specialized cells', which I presume are alive. Since you posit some DNA, where did the translating protein complexes come from? The cells must be different from each other to add up more DNA, so you are presuming they evolved from some original cells, and then varied under natural pressures.
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> You get us a larger DNA. That still does not solve my chicken and egg problem at the start of life as we know it.-We can only try to move forwards with chemistry and backwards from life to find where the origins lie; horizontal transfers still don't get us to origins though it gets us an interesting early view to the beginning of evolution. I didn't get anything about origins from that article, only early evolution.

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