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- W3208572208 abstract "Darwin fully acknowledged the difficulties in seeing how such a thing as an eye might haveevolved through natural selection (Darwin 1859, Chapter 6), but he knew of many lesserexamples that could clearly have arisen that way. If the detailed, well adapted, shape of abird’s beak could have arisen through natural selection without the need for a prior creator,then Nature can indeed act as if it were an engineer, producing what seem to be purposebuiltstructures, and giving an impression of foresight. But, really, no mysterious view ofthe future is required. What is absolutely required for nature’s engineer to get to work isremarkable all the same: it is a kind of memory of what succeeded in the past. So this is thequestion that should be the first focus of our attention: What are the simplest geneticmemories that we can imagine working in a primitive geochemical milieu? The RNA worldidea has been a great inspiration, but this system is already too sophisticated and too farfrom ordinary geochemistry to be a likely beginner in the evolution game. I have suggestedthat the mineral world provides us with several candidates for more primitive geneticmaterials (Cairns-Smith 2005, 2008 and references therein). I will argue against the usualapproach to the puzzle of the origin of life, which looks for ways in which the presentmolecules of life might have arisen as a prelude to a Darwinian evolution. I think that thisputs the cart before the horse. I will suggest rather that natural selection came first, based oninorganic materials, and that “the molecules of life” were a crucial but later part of the story" @default.
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