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Before DNA

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Dec 9, 2008 11:53 AMMay 17, 2019 8:43 PM
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Jennifer writes, "It's the RNA world hypothesis, but I took a little poetic license and used DNA instead of RNA just because I thought double stranded would be more aesthetic."

Carl: Here's an article I wrote for Discover about the RNA world hypothesis for how life got started. And another for Science.

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