A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms
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- Independent Science·2h agoLife may have emerged on Earth in one of these two possible ways, scientists say
First living cells of bacteria and archaea had different enzyme reactions, study finds
Read at Independent Science → - Smithsonian Science·17h agoA New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms
The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordial, nonliving ancestor
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