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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Downsides of Origin of Life Research

origin of life research is not a mature field in the same way that particle physics and cosmology are. The standard of proof in prebiotic chemistry right now is you make a molecule that's in biology without biology. We have this idea that life evolved from a population of cells with a modern translation machinery. But so far we can only get very simple ones under non-biological conditions.

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