Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition

Abiogenesis is frequently envisioned as a linear, ladder-like progression of increasingly complex chemical systems, eventually leading to the ancestors of extant cellular life. This “pre-cladistics” view is in stark contrast to the well-accepted principles of organismal evolutionary biology, as info...

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Main Author: Fournier, Gregory P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156873