Never mind the selfish gene – ribosomes are the missing link

Since the discovery that DNA encodes genetic information, research on the evolution of life has focused on its genetic origins. Following this “genes-first” approach, Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has argued in his book The Selfish Gene that cells and organisms evolved simply as packages to ever-more efficiently protect and transmit genes. But this genes-first point of view ignores much. All cells share three organelles, or internal structures...

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