Tag: RNA world
Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.
Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin
You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication.
On Origin of Life, New Long Story Skewers Materialist Doctrine
The OOL researchers don’t believe they are cheating or stealing. They’re not dishonest, or stupid. But they are fooling themselves.
Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution.
Origin of Life from Basalt Lava Glass? Sorry, No
An honest evaluation of the studies leads to the conclusion that the formation of RNA could not have occurred through any natural processes on the early earth.