# Which came first? Life or DNA?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-life-or-dna/945251 "2021-06-29T14:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-life-or-dna/945251/17 "2021-06-29T22:39:02Z")

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> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#):
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> Great posts, appreciate all of them, I wish I could contribute something.

Book recommendations:

> [@Biochemistries on other planets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biochemistries-on-other-planets/797795/4):
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> You really need to get a copy of [Life as We Do Not Know It](https://books.google.com/books?id=anth6kuZStsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) by Peter Douglas Ward. (For life as we do know it, you couldn’t do much better than the books of Nick Lane, especially including [The Vital Question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vital_Question) and Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.)

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