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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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The Origin of First Life

Dr. James Tour: I call it pan-spermia, which is a fancy scientific name for how did life come to Earth from someplace else? "We don't really care how it got here. We care how it gets made," he says. The idea that no bell prize winners would float these ideas like pan-Spermia seems like you're making it up like a joke,. It seems amazing to me"

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