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Chemist Lee Cronin on Origins of Life, Death, and Aliens
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Chemist Lee Cronin on Origins of Life, Death, and Aliens
Popular chemistry professor Lee Cronin offers his original theory about the origins of life and tells why mathematics would not be common to both humans and aliens.

0:00 Origin of life: Assembly theory provides the mechanism for selection before genes come along.

14:25 Criticism of assembly theory?

26:50 Cancer and death

40:49 Why would aliens have different mathematics?

This interview with Glasgow-based professor of chemistry, Lee Cronin, was originally recorded on our sister biology podcast last summer. The show cov…

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