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Started by donkeyhoty, April 19, 2007, 10:08:05 PM

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here's an article about another origin of life on earth theory, http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ ... rigin.html

and one about a really old ass tree, evidently the first kind of tree, http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... onstructed

If you've seen these already, well now you've seen them twice.
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Squid

#1
I would highly recommend anyone who is interested about origins of life research to pick up a copy of Robert Hazen's Genesis - it gives you a wonderful background into the research and the primary people involved as well as the competing ideas like the metabolism first idea, the RNA world hypothesis, the Iron-Sulfur world and so forth.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and it provides a great insight into the research from a primary researcher in the field.

SteveS

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donkeyhoty, great stuff.  In the first article, I really liked the closing remark,

QuoteWe have to let nature instruct us
Sweet.

In the second, a picture of one of the first trees.  That's just plain cool.  And weird.  Imagine an earth filled with these forests, with no flying or crawling animals - just a vast rustling forest.  Heh, if one of the trees fell, I guess there really wasn't anyone there to hear it, huh?  Haha.

donkeyhoty

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Quote from: "SteveS"Imagine an earth filled with these forests, with no flying or crawling animals
Or even just the first few of these trees, towering over a bunch of ferns...
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SteveS

#4
Quote from: "donkeyhoty"Or even just the first few of these trees, towering over a bunch of ferns...

Yeah ... weird.  Makes me wish I could go back in time and check it out firsthand.