The Hot Spring Hypothesis for the Origin of Life and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

by Bruce Damer

Origin of life researcher, Professor Bruce Damer, presents an exciting four-part essay on the Hot Spring Hypothesis for the Origin of Life, and how this connects to the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Introduction to the Series Part 1. The Origin of Evolution Part 2. Programming Without a Programmer Part 3. The Quest to Test

Evolution Evolving: Process, Mechanism and Theory

by Katrina J Falkenberg

Last week, 200 delegates took part in the Evolution Evolving conference at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. The conference was one of its kind – bringing together senior and junior academics from many different fields to encourage discussions across empirical and theoretical biology, philosophy and history of science, computer science, and anthropology. The atmosphere buzzed with