Re: Lipids First!

Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
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Your ideas are, as always, insightful and provocative.

I come away from this reading more convinced than ever that
a 'Membranes First' approach to OOL is the only logical
possibility. 'Genes First' just doesn't make sense. As I
sketched in a series of postings to this group about a year
ago, the Membranes First viewpoint claims:
- Reproducing closed lipid vesicles appeared well before
nucleic acids, proteins, or any other conceivable
macro-molecules.

Would you talk about this a bit or better yet, suggest
a favorite URL on it? Who originated this idea?

- The organisms grew by fixing CO or CO2 into membrane lipids.

Why would growing be an advantage at this point?

(lots to think about.)


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