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Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret

  • Written by Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.Nanoclustering/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first...

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