Early RNA may have used isolation strategy to defeat useless mutants
Aerosol droplets might have allowed life’s first information molecules to outlive faster replicators
TINY BUBBLES Cooking up Earth’s first life probably required many “pots.” Spatial segregation into different pools or separate droplets might have helped the first self-replicating molecules survive. Later, protocells like those shown here provided more stable compartmentalization.
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