Chemical constraints on non-Earth life | Steve Benner at Breakthrough Discuss 2018

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Channel: Breakthrough · 2018 · Science & Technology

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If we make one assumption - that all life in the Universe evolves by Darwinian evolution - what can our knowledge of Earth's natural history, the constraints of chemistry and the progress of synthetic biology tell us about what may be out there? Chemist Steve Benner, founder of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution

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