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Just because a hypothesis seems likely doesn't mean it doesn't require evidence.
by ralusek 4y ago
Just because a hypothesis seems likely doesn't mean it doesn't require evidence.
- oneoff786 4y agoThe article suggests the dna hypothesis was the front runner for a while though
- creatonez 4y agoNo? The article is talking about RNA World hypothesis vs. RNA-Protein World hypothesis. The RNA world hypothesis has been accepted widely for a long time. Before membraneless RNA viroids were discovered, some abiogenesis researchers may have thought that DNA is fundamentally required for self-replication, so whatever first occurred must have had it. But this is simply a lack of imagination on what RNA can do.