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For anyone interested in the origin of life I can heartily recommend Nick Lane's "The Vital Question", which sums up a lot of the most recent research in this a
by ThePhysicist 11y ago
For anyone interested in the origin of life I can heartily recommend Nick Lane's "The Vital Question", which sums up a lot of the most recent research in this area and also briefly talks about the Cambrian explosion. Really fascinating, deeply interesting stuff.
- agumonkey 11y agoThanks a lot, I was looking for such topics for a while !
- rusanu 11y agoThe book is excelent. Nick Lane also has many YouTube posted lectures that cover the topic. Eg. Alkaline hydrothermal Vent origin of life[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxAB4Weq0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxAB4Weq0U
- rusanu 11y agoAnd for the Cambrian Explosion, although somehow dated now, Gould's Wonderful Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
- cgriswald 11y agoI'm reading Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, which talks about the Cambrian explosion as well, in the context of the search for extraterrestrial life. It's perhaps a little dated, but a good read.
- uxcn 11y agoBoth Cosmoses (Carl Sagan's and Neil deGrasse Tyson's) also give a decent high level overview. The latter is still on Netflix I think.