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Bruce Damer / Chemical Crucibles

Part 2 of Is Life Inevitable?, featuring Caleb Scharf, director of Astrobiology at Columbia University in New York, and Bruce Damer, research scientist in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, describing how life may have emerged from chemical pools in geologically active areas, like Yellowstone, which were in great abundance billions of years ago.

Is Life Inevitable?:
Part 1: Laurie Barge / Hydrothermal Vents
Part 2: Bruce Damer / Chemical Crucibles
Part 3: Jeremy England / Entropic Kismet

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