Thursday, June 16, 2016

Life as we know it most likely arose via 'long, slow dance'

The first eukaryote is thought to have arisen when simpler archaea and bacteria joined forces. But researchers now propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep-sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors.

from Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1UBYf5l
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