Jennifer writes, “It’s the RNA world hypothesis, but I took a little poetic license and used DNA instead of RNA just because I thought double stranded would be more aesthetic.”
Carl: Here’s an article I wrote for Discover about the RNA world hypothesis for how life got started. And another for Science.
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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DISCOVERmagazine: Living World DISCOVER Blogs: Bad Astronomy
December 12th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
[...] of them is flourishing over at Carl Zimmer’s science blog, The Loom. Here’s a big, one, RNA World. It’s semi-accurate but [...]