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Letter: Both right

Published 4 July 2012

From Ted Pham

So the answer to the question of whether life is inevitable or a fluke turns out to be inconclusive (23 June, p 32). If Nick Lane’s thinking is right, all we know for sure is that, using the example of life on Earth, it is both inevitable (simple forms) and a fluke (complex forms).

Westminster, California, US

Issue no. 2872 published 7 July 2012

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