Posted: Feb 23, 2011 2:25 pm
by natselrox
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110223/ ... s=news_rss


Oil droplets that creep purposefully through their watery environment, metabolize fuel, sense their surroundings and perhaps even replicate — could these be precursors to life? That's the claim of a chemist with a controversial approach to modelling how Earth's first organisms scraped themselves together.

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