http://phys.org/news/2016-04-scientists-rna-abundant-space.html
Folks conflate the comet-origins direction with panspermia, but they are
not quite the same thing.
On 4/24/16 1:47 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?
http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks-deep-sea-vents.html
IMHO it becomes more interesting when RNA and DNA is involved, that is
to say when a code is involved. It is the same with ancient cultures,
the stone age is barely interesting, it gets much more fascinating
when a code in form of a writing system is involved, for example among
the ancient Egyptians, Maya, Aztecs, Sumerians, etc.
-Jochen
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-------- Original message --------
From: Russ Abbott <[email protected]>
Date: 4/23/16 07:11 (GMT+01:00)
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Origins of Life
Nick Lane is terrific. I've read a number of his books -- but not /The
Vital Question/ yet. In this talk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcWfecmZhE> and this talk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7pZyks_HE> he discusses some of the
issues he writes about in the book.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:11 PM Nick Thompson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear Friammers,
Today’s meeting of the Mother Church got back to our old
discussions of complexity, gradients, and the origin of life. In
that connection I urged everybody to read Nick Lane’s, */THE VITAL
QUESTION: Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life./*
The fundamental theory is that life was scaffolded by the
microstructure and energy flows taking place in deep ocean vents
called “white smokers”. I am curious to know if others have read
this book, and what you might think of it.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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