Posted: Sep 21, 2017 6:03 am
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This event is believed to have taken place possibly 4billion years ago, at a time when a young earth was a hostile place with a volcanic activity and an atmosphere that had yet to contain oxygen. RNA, said Durand, was hardy and would have survived these kinds of conditions.
"This probably would have happened along the shoreline, in pools of water, although some people believe it might have even happened on clay," Durand said.
Francis Thackeray, of the Institute for Human Evolution at Wits, said that surprisingly what Durand and Dhar had discovered was suggested by Charles Darwin 146 years ago.