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

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 16:16 (5407 days ago) @ xeno6696


> > 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.
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> 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.-We still come back to your point. Life comes only from life in our experience. Going backward to where? That is why Robert Shapiro has suggested starting with inorganic loops that develop some energy supply. Life runs on ADP and ATP. Get to those molecules included in the loop, then maybe, and that is a huge maybe, something will emerge to get behind the chicken-egg problem: DNA is only useful if the translating mechanisms are in place, (A' La the other Shapiro)