A major step in origins of life research:
By analyzing the metabolic networks of primitive microbes, a team led by @jrcxavier incl. fmr SFI Prof Stuart Kauffman & fmr Grad Fellow @WanderingWim has identified fossils of autocatalytic sets older than both RNA and protein polymers:
By analyzing the metabolic networks of primitive microbes, a team led by @jrcxavier incl. fmr SFI Prof Stuart Kauffman & fmr Grad Fellow @WanderingWim has identified fossils of autocatalytic sets older than both RNA and protein polymers:
Almost 50 years ago Stuart Kauffman suggested that theoretical constructs called autocatalytic sets might have been intermediates in the origin of biological complexity.
Their existence was the subject of decades of fierce debate...
More at @physorg_com:
phys.org/news/2020-03-m…
Their existence was the subject of decades of fierce debate...
More at @physorg_com:
phys.org/news/2020-03-m…
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🦠 origins.complexityexplorer.org
