Origins of life: New model may explain emergence of self-replication on early Earth
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When life on Earth began nearly 4 billion years ago, long before humans, dinosaurs or even the earliest single-celled forms of life roamed, it may have started as a hiccup rather than a roar: small, simple molecular building blocks known as "monomers" coming together into longer "polymer" chains and falling apart in the warm pools of primordial ooze over and over again.