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. 2015 Oct 22;5(4):1583-6.

doi: 10.3390/life5041583.

The RNA World: 4,000,000,050 years old

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PMID: 26791312
PMCID: PMC4695837
DOI: 10.3390/life5041583

The RNA World: 4,000,000,050 years old

Niles Lehman. Life (Basel). 2015.

. 2015 Oct 22;5(4):1583-6.

doi: 10.3390/life5041583.

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¹ Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207, USA. niles@pdx.edu.

PMID: 26791312
PMCID: PMC4695837
DOI: 10.3390/life5041583

Abstract

The RNA World is now some four billion years behind us, but only recently turned 50 as a human hypothesis. [...].

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