Life Itself
by Francis Crick
Crick speculates that life may have been seeded from elsewhere, directed panspermia, and in doing so lays out the real difficulty of origin-of-life questions. Short and provocative.
Read it if…
you want a Nobel laureate thinking out loud about origins.
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Skip it if…
you want the mainstream account; see The Vital Question.
Try instead: How to Lie with Statistics →
Three things you will actually use
- Origins are hard.
- Speculate, then test.
- Even geniuses guess.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the origin problem.
Our verdict
Crick on origins.
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