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    Sep 15, 2008 7:00 AM 710
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    Evolution Without Biology?

    A couple of Harvard mathematicians have created models that suggest there could have been a strange form of natural selection at work on the chemicals swirling in Earth's primordial soup where life arose. They call what they've found "pre-evolution," and it helps explain why nucleic acids and proteins might have come about, and then later evolved into life as we know it. [via New Scientist]


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