Published on March 26, 2017
Conway Hall, London, 24 April 2014, with:
Nick Lane, Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry, UCL
Matthew Powner, Lecturer in Chemistry, UCL
Perhaps the biggest question in biology is “how did life get started?” To answer it needs immense creativity and painstaking research. Candidate ideas for how chemistry became biology take us from dark, rocky outcrops on the sea floor to Darwin’s “warm little pond” in the full glare of sunlight.
