Tim, thank for posting that, off-topic or not, as I hadn't seen it. I'll be sharing that link with some friends (a couple of whom are biologists). I'm not a biologist or anything close, I just follow this stuff. For what little it's worth, my interpretation would be that this is not a breakthrough in understanding the origin of life, as it doesn't propose anything not previously theorized or show any discovery in existing life that would invalidate or refine current theories. But it is significant because it shows a simple working version of something needed in those theories. Not proving that's how it happened, which we may never know, but helping show it could have happened that way. Steve On 4/4/2026 8:04 AM, Tim Eck via pbs wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post but I don't know any biologists personally. > Is this article saying something groundbreaking about the origin of life? > Or is this state of the art knowledge? > https://science.org/doi/10.1126/… > Thanks > Tim > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…