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Science 30 July 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5428, pp. 668 - 669
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5428.668
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
In the Beginning, There Was RNA

A review by Walter Keller

The RNA World 2nd ed.
Raymond F. Gesteland, Thomas R. Cech, and John F. Atkins, Eds.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1999. 735 pp. $129. ISBN 0-87969-561-7.

Contributors to this substantial revision and updating of the acclaimed 1994 volume offer perspectives on the modern world of RNA and how it suggests that prebiotic RNA was a key stage in the evolution of life.
The author is at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: keller2{at}ubaclu.unibas.ch

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