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Did life have very cold beginnings?

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An idea that combines two likely ingredients of genesis has been put forward by Philip Holliger from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. One ingredient is the idea that there was an ‘RNA world’ before the current DNA world. The other comes from the idea that a key factor in evolution was the emergence of the cell membrane. More…