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Re:Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Our DNA (2017) by User23 on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:06AM (#18113211)
What's the argument that life couldn't have arisen multiple times? If the conditions for spontaneous generation existed on the primordial Earth, why wouldn't they have held in more than one place and why couldn't genesis have occurred more than once?
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Re:Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Our DNA (2017) by Emma_Goldman on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:13AM (#18113324)
There is no consensus about how life originated on earth. It's perfectly possible that life has arise multiple times.
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Re:Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Our DNA (2017) by fifnir on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:08PM (#18113984)
And how do we come to share genetic code and genes with the most distant organisms?
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