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From: chiaraviglio@husc4.harvard.edu (lucius)
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Subject: A. G. Cairns Smith's Theory of the Origin of Life
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 01:09:11 EDT
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	Has anyone here read A. G. Cairns Smith's book Genetic Takeover and
the Mineral Origins of Life and/or the related Scientific American article of
a little more than a year ago which summarizes the main ideas of the book?

	If people show sufficient interest I will post a summary to this
newsgroup.  It is a very interesting theory which gets around many of the
problems of the organic soup theory of the origin of life.

					Lucius Chiaraviglio
					lucius@tardis.harvard.edu[.arpa]
					seismo!tardis!lucius