June 15, 2009
New Glimpses of Life’s Puzzling Origins
The New York Times
[…] Chemists and biologists are thus pretty much on their own in figuring out how life started. For lack of fossil evidence, they have no guide as to when, where or how the first forms of life emerged. So they will figure life out only by reinventing it in the laboratory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/science/16orig.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science
