Nick Lane on life's origin and alkaline hydrothermal vents

The Royal Institution · Lecture · 34 min · 2015 · YouTube title: Why is Life the Way it Is? with Nick Lane

Why it's here

HN points to it as an accessible presentation of Lane's ideas on life's origins and the rarity of complex life.

What it covers

Nick Lane's Royal Institution lecture on the origin of life and why it is the way it is. It draws on his book The Vital Question and the alkaline hydrothermal vent theory of abiogenesis.