Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Following Life's Chemistry to the Earliest Branches On the Tree of Life

ScienceDaily -- In a study published in PLoS Computational Biology, the Santa Fe Institute's Rogier Braakman and D. Eric Smith map the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life and trace six methods of carbon fixation seen in modern life back to a single ancestral form.

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