12. Origin of life: The emergence of translation, replication, metabolism, and membranes—the biological, geochemical, and cosmological perspectives
In the preceding chapter, we discussed possible scenarios for the origin of cells and (hopefully) reached some degree of plausibility with the primordial Virus World scenario of cellular evolution. However, this was all about relatively late stages of evolution, at which replication of the genetic material and translation yielding diverse proteins were already well established. All these models seem to be of dubious value unless we develop some kind of explanation for the origin of the fundamental processes of information transmission.
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