RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Interestingly, if we observe that an origin of life has to create an actual self-sustaining ecosystem, and assume this had to have the genetic information of 3 LUCAs (it would really be many more different kinds of LUCA sharing most of their genetic information), we get a number almost as small as 10^-600,000. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Interestingly, if we observe that an origin of life has to create an actual self-sustaining ecosystem, and assume this had to have the genetic information of 3 LUCAs (it would really be many more different kinds of LUCA sharing most of their genetic information), we get a number almost as small as 10^-600,000. ...

A scientist thinks he has found the cause of will-o’-the-wisps. He may also have stumbled across part of the answer to a far bigger mystery: the origin of life on Earth https://t.co/jHcdjfQhpG ...