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Letter: Excited by new views on the origins of life

Published 19 July 2023

From HildaRuth Beaumont, Brighton, UK

Every once in a while, an article appears that changes my way of thinking about things. This was the case with Thomas Lewton’s interview of Sara Imari Walker. I have puzzled over the origins of life on many occasions and found the prevailing orthodoxies unsatisfactory. Walker’s Assembly Theory shone a completely new light on the topic. I suggest that you ask her for a timeline of her proposed research for the next four years and that Lewton interviews her at six-monthly intervals so that readers can keep abreast of progress on this (24 June, p 32).

Issue no. 3448 published 22 July 2023

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