It could be that for an Earth-like planet to form, the metallicity of its solar and galactic neighborhood needs to be close to that of our early solar system.
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Paul Allen has just invested $100 million in a new center devoted to trying to illuminate how cells work. What, you thought scientists had that all figured out?
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Jerry Coyne is a professor of evolution at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively about his denial that we have libertarian free will.
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Recognizing that natural selection is often treated as a magic wand, Lynch has looked to other unguided mechanisms -- genetic drift, population genetics -- for the seeds of innovation.
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Privileged Species explores growing evidence from physics, chemistry and biology that our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves.
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