CSPAN2 Book Discussion November 23, 2014
The big open questions. Its something that happened a very long time ago for probably about 4 billion years ago, not long after the earth came into existence about 4. 5 billion years ago. We know the kind of thing it had to be. It had to be the origin of the first cells replicating information, the first gene although it certainly would not have been dna. Dna would have almost certainly come in later and usurped the role of the original replicator so most of the theorizing and i would say perhaps all the theorizing going on now is looking for the chemical event, some kind of a lucky random che...