Tag: first cell
Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond
Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made.
New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17
According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell.
More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series
Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death.
Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without
Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more.
See It Now: James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life
They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more.