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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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The Importance of Community in the Origin of Life

There's a community. There's researchers that work in this area of origin of life and they have meetings together and they discuss the progress. And so they keep saying that we're going to have life in Lee Cronin, set it in 2011. And he'll hopefully make life in his lab within two years. Is that this in 2011? 2011. Just doing the math. I'm thinking maybe that didn't happen. Jack Sauschteck at Harvard, a Nobel Prize winner, said in 2014 he'd haveLife in his lab made within three to five years. He missed that date. But you see, but again, you're so understated. It would be like saying

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