The full paper[1] is interesting, as is the news and views commentary on this article[2] from the same Molecular Systems Biology journal. The origin of life is,

The full paper[1] is interesting, as is the news and views commentary on this article[2] from the same Molecular Systems Biology journal. The origin of life is, of course, still an unsolved problem, and one of the problems has been inferring from geological and other findings what the early environment of Earth was in which life arose. I commend the Hacker News participant here who submitted this article for submitting an article from a journalistic source experienced in science journalism, with a reporter making the effort to seek other commenters besides the primary research journal authors to gain pro-and-con commentary about how important this preliminary finding is. I found the submission interesting, as it suggests some lines of inquiry I hadn't read about before in other writings on the origin of life. [1] http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/725 http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/725 [2] http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/729 http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/729