Can the Timing of the Origin of Life Be Inferred from Trends in the Growth of Organismal Complexity?

Genome sizes, gene number, protein–protein binding sites, energy for cell construction, mass of individual cells, the rate of cell mass growth, and a molecular complexity measure all yield highly significant regressions of linearly increasing complexity when plotted over the last 4 Gyr (billion years).

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