A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about the possibility that life is not some ultra-rare miracle, but rather potentially inevitable. A few pieces of new research out in the last few weeks reinforce this possibility, and develop it, but from different angles…
read more →A new analysis of one of the oldest rocks ever found now suggests that life may have thrived on Earth a mere 300 hundred million years after the planet’s accretion. If correct (and the evidence is pretty compelling), this is mind-boggling for two different reasons,…
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