Author: Denyse O'Leary
Origin of Life: Could It All Have Come Together in One Very Special Place?
As they say in real estate, location, location, location.
Self-Organization: Can We Wring Information from Matter — Shake the Bit Out of the It?
Current research assumes that life’s origin must be a fully natural event, whether it occurs due to an as-yet-unknown law of nature or by chance.
Welcome to “RNA World,” the Five-Star Hotel of Origin-of-Life Theories
Yes, RNA theorists admit, there are difficulties. The very same people who called RNA world “the molecular biologist’s dream” also called it “the prebiotic chemist’s nightmare.”
Can All the Numbers for Life’s Origin Just Happen to Fall into Place?
We are told that theories in science should be beautiful, and chance does offer a sort of bleak, existential grandeur.
Does Nature Just “Naturally” Produce Life?
Law-based approaches to origin of life have been gaining ground, powered in large part by ambitious rhetoric.