From Not Alive to Almost Alive

If you are reading this book hoping to learn how life began, I’m sorry to say that no one knows the answer yet. We do know something about what the Earth was like four billion years ago before life began, which was described in the...

What We Still Need to Discover

The title of this book is The Origins of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know. Well, everyone needs to know not just the answers we have found so far but also the questions that remain. This is because the cutting edge of science...

How to Assemble a Habitable Planet

Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas that, when given enough time, changes into people. How much time? 13.7 billion years! A good way to present the information in this book is to pose a question, provide an answer, and then go on to ask and...

Introduction

I’ll begin with a challenging question: Why should anyone want to know about the origin of life? The answers will vary from one person to the next, but the simplest answer is curiosity. Anyone reading this introduction is curious because they wonder how life could...

What We Still Need to Discover

The title of this book is The Origins of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know. Well, everyone needs to know not just the answers we have found so far but also the questions that remain. This is because the cutting edge of science...

From Not Alive to Almost Alive

If you are reading this book hoping to learn how life began, I’m sorry to say that no one knows the answer yet. We do know something about what the Earth was like four billion years ago before life began, which was described in the...

How to Assemble a Habitable Planet

Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas that, when given enough time, changes into people. How much time? 13.7 billion years! A good way to present the information in this book is to pose a question, provide an answer, and then go on to ask and...

Introduction

I’ll begin with a challenging question: Why should anyone want to know about the origin of life? The answers will vary from one person to the next, but the simplest answer is curiosity. Anyone reading this introduction is curious because they wonder how life could...