Posted: Feb 23, 2011 3:49 pm
Replication he thinks he has:
Growth would, perhaps, come later, once replication has become a bit more reliable.
He wants to show how the process could have started: obviously it's a long way from there to anything like "life as we know it"!
Characteristics would be passed to daughter droplets on division, though he concedes that without being formally encoded, these would be dependent on the environment, and could easily be lost.
Growth would, perhaps, come later, once replication has become a bit more reliable.
He wants to show how the process could have started: obviously it's a long way from there to anything like "life as we know it"!