Steffen Schmidt wrote:
>> I'am looking for ideas and papers about the following statement which is
> possibly wrong (but why?):
> Most people think, that the last common ancestor was a thermophilic
> organism (e.g. Woese et al.) because of sequence comparisons.
You may want to look at this:
Science 1999 Jan 8;283(5399):220-1
A nonhyperthermophilic common ancestor to extant life forms.
Galtier N, Tourasse N, Gouy M
hope this helps
Marc
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