Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing[...]
"How did life start? How did something capable of replicating itself emerge from the primordial soup? How did it defy the odds? And how did it continue to seek out those very mutations that enable survival? Life is an extraordinary phenomenon whose existence requires an extraordinary explanation." "[...]