RNA evolution and the origins of life
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 338 (6212), 217-224
- https://doi.org/10.1038/338217a0
Abstract
The evolution of RNA is likely to have played an important role in the very early history of life on Earth but it is doubtful that life began with RNA. Consideration of what came before RNA must take into account relevant information from geochemistry, prebiotic chemistry and nucleic acid biochemistry.This publication has 78 references indexed in Scilit:
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