Origin of Life Sea Saga


 
Thermal VentsOrigin of life researchers collected “new insights” from a new paper entitled “The origin of membrane biogenetics,” published in the December issue of the journal Cell. The media elevated the hype into an origin-of-life sea saga spectacle.

The journal Nature covered the paper in an article entitled “How life emerged from deep-sea rocks” by Ed Yong. The subtitle. “The origin of ion-pumping proteins could explain how life began in and escaped from undersea thermal vents,” seemed to seal the deal.

NBCNEWS.com featured the story with the title “Theorists are pumped up about their new origin of life proposal” by Tia Ghose. “A new theory proposes the primordial life-forms that gave rise to all life on Earth left deep-sea vents,” reported Ghose, “because of their ‘invention’ of a tiny pump.”

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