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Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak

Big Brains

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Is It Easier or Harder for Life to Get Started?

If life is inevitable, given the right conditions, maybe we are not alone. There are hundreds of millions of rocky planets in our galaxy. If astronomers get evidence for life on another planet, that would say "it can't be that hard" But if we're able to build living cells in the lab then I think that would inspire the exoplanet community to look even harder for examples of life elsewhere.

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