The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable
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The article discusses the search for life in extreme environments and the discussion revolves around the possibility of complex biochemistry evolving in organisms with very long generation times.
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Is that long enough to have evolved? How many generations are reasonable to expect complex biochemistry to emerge?
It tries to answer the important question of how life evolves from chemistry. I remember him spending a long time on the chemistry and location questions, but not on the time it took. Probably hard to do from the fossil record.
0: https://www.gatesnotes.com/the-vital-question