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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

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The Early Life Forms Must Have Been DNA

DNA, we think, is an essential part of life. That's where the storage is. And therefore, the early life forms must have had some kind of storage medium DNA. If you look at how life actually evolved, DNA was invented much later. Proteins were invented later. And RNA was fine by itself. Thank you very much in an RNA world.

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