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Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The paper and the phys.org article are a year old (which is maybe why it doesn’t seem so unexpected)—any guess why Popular Mechanics is only reporting on it now?

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would guess that either the author at popular mechanics just found it / just dug it out of their reading list or one of the authors of the paper reached out as part of promoting their research?

I think a year ago as someone learning biology from Khan Academy and reading about endosymbiosis and reading what I could about LUCA theories with some chemistry background then whats written here just seems like a likely possibility. The paper doesn't seem like strong evidence and it seems like there is a lot of guess work for early life. The teams making artificial cells are doing interesting, scary work there.

But I'm no expert here, I was just pointing out the source material and a summary