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I don't see how it is a justifiable risk myself. How can we take such a risk of losing something as precious as - say - RNA world life that has never evolved to DNA - and perhaps - is still in the pre-Darwinian phase that Carl Woese hypothesized Earth life may have gone through, when there was no interspecies competition, no distinct species as such, just RNA capabilities shared by everything. |
I don't see how it is a justifiable risk myself. How can we take such a risk of losing something as precious as - say - RNA world life that has never evolved to DNA - and perhaps - is still in the pre-Darwinian phase that Carl Woese hypothesized Earth life may have gone through, when there was no interspecies competition, no distinct species as such, just RNA capabilities shared by everything. |
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==CARL WOESE’S “ON THE EVOLUTION OF CELLS== |
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This example is based on a direction suggested by Carl Woese, in a 2002 paper On the evolution of cells (http://www.pnas.org/content/99/13/8742), and followed up in many recent papers on early pre-LUCA life (“Last Universal Common Ancestor). |
This example is based on a direction suggested by Carl Woese, in a 2002 paper On the evolution of cells (http://www.pnas.org/content/99/13/8742), and followed up in many recent papers on early pre-LUCA life (“Last Universal Common Ancestor). |
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