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Is Earth Unique? Mario Livio and Jack Szostak on the Odds of Alien Life [Ep. 457]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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This chapter explores the distinctiveness of life on Earth and the probability of life elsewhere in the universe. Key scientific theories such as the Urey experiment and the RNA world hypothesis are discussed, alongside the implications of the Copernican principle and efforts to simulate early life conditions in laboratories.

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