The Origin of Life: a Warm Littl

Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about whether life on Earth is unique. But like a detective piecing together seemingly unrelated fragments of evidence, Clair Edwin Folsome reviews key discoveries in astronomy, chemistry, biology, and physics over the last century. And he shows that they all lead to the controversial conclusion that the formation of life on our planet was not extraordinary, but unremarkable and inevitable.