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Evolution before genes.
Biology direct - 5 Jan 2012
Vasas Vera, Fernando Chrisantha, Santos Mauro, Kauffman Stuart, Szathmáry Eörs
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Our current understanding of evolution is so tightly linked to template-dependent replication of DNA and RNA molecules that the old idea from Oparin of a self-reproducing 'garbage bag' ('coacervate') of chemicals that predated fully-fledged cell-like entities seems to be farfetched to most scientists today. However, this is exactly the kind of scheme we propose for how Darwinian evolution could have...
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