The laws of life

Charles Cockell

doi:10.1063/PT.3.3493

The laws of life

Charles Cockell^*

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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Perhaps the questions were too speculative for his time, but Charles Darwin never considered whether another evolutionary experiment exists in the universe or what such an experiment might look like. Once life emerged on Earth, it proliferated across the planet, assumed remarkable forms, and wrought the extraordinary changes that have now inextricably linked the biosphere and geosphere. The oxygen that you and I breathe originated as the result of photosynthetic activity so pervasive and so productive that it eventually reached levels sufficient to drive a complex multicellular biosphere.(1)

Original language	English
Pages	42-48
Number of pages	7
Volume	70
No.	3
Specialist publication	Physics Today
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3493
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2017

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