Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery

Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by FridayoLeary on Friday October 29, 2021 @09:37AM (#29038203)

studying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explains how living forms came to exist.

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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by gliptic on Friday October 29, 2021 @09:48AM (#29038338)

If you never learn where a few molecules came from, how could you possibly make progress on the problem?

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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by dekhn on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:19PM (#29041819)

we made substantial progress in biology before we understood molecules. this is because it's not necessary to be entirely reductive to understand larger systems.

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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by gliptic on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:06PM (#29042367)

Yes, but we're talking origin of life.

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