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How Life Started - Nick Lane

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Debunking Myths of the Origin of Life: Primordial Soup and RNA World

This chapter explores the hypothesis of the primordial soup and the RNA world in the origin of life, debunking them as myths with little scientific foundation. Instead, the authors propose the existence of early cells performing the same biochemistry observed today.

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