Origin Of Life: New Study Spotlights Not Chemistry But How Living Things Store, Process Information

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer
Published: 12/11/2012 07:08 PM EST on LiveScience
Scientists trying to unravel the mystery of life's origins have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study argues.

Instead of trying to recreate the chemical building blocks that gave rise to life 3.7 billion years ago, scientists should use key differences in the way that living creatures store and process information, suggests new research detailed today (Dec. 11) in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

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