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Ameisen t1_j8hgf75 wrote on February 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is it possible that abiogenesis is still happening right now on earth? by dolekanteel

Viruses require, by definition, host replication machinery to reproduce. They are completely inert otherwise. So... they could not have come first... or at least, not vira as we currently understand them.