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The Place of Viruses in Biology in Light of the Metabolismversus-Replication-First Debate (2012)

López-García, Purificación (Author)

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 34, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 391-406

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The last decade has seen a revival of old virocentric ideas. These concepts are heterogeneous, extending from proposals that consider viruses functionally as living beings and/or as descendants of viral lineages that preceded cell evolution to other claims that consider viruses and/or some viral families a fourth domain of life. While the debates about whether viruses are alive or not and whether some virus-like replicators preceded the first cells fall under the long-lasting dichotomous view on the nature and origin of life (metabolism- versus replication-first), the claim that some giant viruses form a fourth domain in an organismal tree of life is not consistent with current evidence and can be falsified.

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