Life itself
| Title | Life itself
its origin and nature |
|---|---|
| Author | Francis Crick |
| Publication | Macdonald |
| Size | 192p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 0708822355 |
| Topics |
Life--Origin (Biology) Extraterrestrial beings Panspermia Fermi paradox |
| Notes | During the 1960s, Crick became concerned with the origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place of Leslie Orgel at a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick speculated about possible stages by which an initially simple code with a few amino acid types might have evolved into the more complex code used by existing organisms.[89] At that time, everyone thought of proteins as the only kind of enzymes and ribozymes had not yet been found. Many molecular biologists were puzzled by the problem of the origin of a protein replicating system that is as complex as that which exists in organisms currently inhabiting Earth. In the early 1970s, Crick and Orgel further speculated about the possibility that the production of living systems from molecules may have been a very rare event in the universe, but once it had developed it could be spread by intelligent life forms using space travel technology, a process they called "directed panspermia". [wikipedia] |
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