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Science 9 January 2009:
Vol. 323 no. 5911 pp. 198-199
DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5911.198
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EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS
EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS

On the Origin of Life on Earth

  1. Carl Zimmer*
  1. Carl Zimmer is the author of Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life.

Summary

In the first of a monthly series of essays celebrating the Year of Darwin, Carl Zimmer discusses attempts to unravel how life originated on Earth by recreating the process in the laboratory.