Tag: ability to reproduce

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James Tour

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March 10, 2021

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James Tour–A Flyover of the Challenges Facing Abiogenesis

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March 10, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future features the next in a YouTube video series by Dr. James Tour on the origin-of-life problem. Here Tour, a distinguished synthetic organic chemist, lists the characteristics of life and describes some features of the early Earth where life first appeared. Then he provides a fast flyover of the many grave problems of blindly evolving the first living cell from prebiotic materials.