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Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak

Big Brains

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How to Make the Molecules of Life?

Shostak is focused on volcanic areas in part because those kinds of environments would have created the extreme temperature fluctuations that are useful for chemical reactions. He says there's a whole series of pathways where you build up gradually more complicated molecules. And to me, the most interesting questions are how do they get together and what are the processes that give rise to the first cells?

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