Life Came From Rocks

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Life Came From Rocks

 

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012

A coherent pathway -- which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells -- has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121220143530.htm

"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck


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Blimey - mark this thread

It's the end of the world as we know it.

Abiogenesis perhaps explained in our lifetimes.