Jack Szostak on the Origin of Cellular Life: Part 1

Science Communication Lab · Lecture · 55 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Jack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth

Why it's here

Recommended as a clear, authoritative lecture series on plausible origin-of-life theories.

What it covers

Jack Szostak's lecture covers how cellular life could have arisen from chemistry on the early Earth, starting from the odds of life elsewhere in the galaxy. It is part of a series on protocells and the RNA world.