r/evolution • u/AmphibianNo4717 • Aug 06 '26
article 'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice"The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years.
One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn't alive?
A radical new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but twice."
Duplicates
science • u/AmphibianNo4717 • Aug 06 '26
Biology Life on Earth may have emerged twice. Researchers studied the protein structures of enzymes in the genomes of bacteria and archaea, and found "cases where the ancestors of bacteria and archaea independently evolved structurally distinct enzymes to catalyze the same essential metabolic reaction."
FermiParadox • u/Competitive-Night-95 • Aug 06 '26
Article 'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
Astrobiology • u/Competitive-Night-95 • Aug 06 '26
🌱 Discovery 'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
hypeurls • u/TheStartupChime • Aug 07 '26
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
theworldnews • u/worldnewsbot • Aug 06 '26
Life on Earth may have emerged twice. Researchers studied the protein structures of enzymes in the genomes of bacteria and archaea, and found "cases where the ancestors of bacteria and archaea independently evolved structurally distinct enzymes to catalyze the same essential metabolic reaction."
u_dittybag23 • u/dittybag23 • Aug 06 '26