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Thinking Twice about the Evolution of Photosynthesis

2019-02-22

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Sam Granick opened his seminal 1957 paper titled Speculations on the Origins and Evolution of Photosynthesis with the assertion that there is a constant urge in human beings to seek beginnings (I concur). This urge has led to an incessant stream of speculative ideas and debates on the evolution of photosynthesis that started in the first half of the twentieth century and shows no signs of abating. Some of these sp...

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Literature Corpus work: fc19f636-0b60-5d52-ac8a-67bd00fea9f2
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201812.0087.v2

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