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Re:Our ancestor’s ‘leaky’ membrane answers big questions in ... by mrfusion on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @02:16PM (#8174252)
Would this tend to rule out panspermia since it looks like early life was primitive and very specialized to conditions on certain locations of earth?
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Re:Our ancestor’s ‘leaky’ membrane answers big questions in ... by ufmace on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @06:22PM (#8175294)
It sounds like this work is fleshing out how one of the early steps in the evolution of live took place. I'm guessing that the more we learn about the links in this chain, the more we'll know about whether or not it's plausible that there was some sort of panspermia.
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Re:Our ancestor’s ‘leaky’ membrane answers big questions in ... by ceejayoz on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @04:44PM (#8174927)
Not if you assume that most rocky planets had similar conditions at times.
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