Buzz Baum - Looking for the organism that gave rise to life on Earth
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Buzz Baum - Looking for the organism that gave rise to life on Earth

2025-06-26
Buzz Baum, Cell Biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, explains the beginnings of life on Earth.   Key Points • Darwin hypothesised that all living organisms are branches on a tree and that there is one single trunk to life on Earth.• Two partners gave rise to all complex cells: bacteria and archaea. We are all composite organisms – a mixture of bacterial genes and archaea organisms.• Many aspects of archaeal biology are very similar to our biology....
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