Which came first: the chicken, the egg, or guanine?

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FIGURE 4.
FIGURE 4.

Suggested steps between the primordial world and the ribosome. The lower panel shows an approximate timeline of the main events (black) and colocation of the bootstrapping (blue) and the evolution (green).

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  1. Published in Advance June 7, 2023, doi: 10.1261/rna.079613.123 RNA 29: 1317-1324

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