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Billions of years, but that's probably not far enough for you. The Vital Question is about the origin of eukaryotic cells.
by sfkdjf9j3j 7y ago
Billions of years, but that's probably not far enough for you. The Vital Question is about the origin of eukaryotic cells.
- jcims 7y agoActually that would help for me. One of the early walls in the evolutionary curve would appear to be DNA replication. The level of complexity in the associated protein/enzyme machinery is one of those 'weird things' to me that I don't really understand. Will take a look, thank you. Edit: Some context, a 'realistic' animation of the DNA replication process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6f3ZbKaL7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6f3ZbKaL7A
- raz32dust 7y agoThe Vital question doesn't delve into the DNA replication part of it as far as I remember. It focuses more on the initial conditions needed for the living cell machinery to bootstrap, and the physical constraints that are necessary or need to be overcome to achieve life, and kind of glosses over the genetics part. I myself wondered about this after reading the book, and the best resource I could find was this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/