Prebiotic chemistry aims to explain how the biochemistry of life as we know it came to be.
Most efforts in this area have focused on provisioning compounds of importance to life by …

For over 100 years, endosymbiotic theories have figured in thoughts about the differences
between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. More than 20 different versions of endosymbiotic …

" A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work."—Nature How did we come to have minds? For
centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the …

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an
evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to …

Flavin-based electron bifurcation is a newly discovered mechanism, by which a hydride
electron pair from NAD (P) H, coenzyme F420H2, H2, or formate is split by flavoproteins into …

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we
understand it.“Vivid... impressive.... Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times …

Leeuwenhoek's 1677 paper, the famous 'letter on the protozoa', gives the first detailed
description of protists and bacteria living in a range of environments. The colloquial, diaristic …

Over the last 70 years, prebiotic chemists have been very successful in synthesizing the
molecules of life, from amino acids to nucleotides. Yet there is strikingly little resemblance …

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our
very idea of what it means to be'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the …

Various independent discoveries have shown that many organic codes exist in living
systems, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and contributed …