Traces of Inaugural Life
Geologists, biologists join forces to tell new stories about the first cells on Earth
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/340401/title/Traces_of_Inaugural_Life
I am interested in the origins of life and would love to have the leisure (and resources) to do some experiments. I believe (when there is no data, all you have is faith) that life probably forms spontaneously when a fairly broad range of conditions are available and the only real variable is how fast does it get to independent cellular entities that are capable of evolving the way we are used to analyzing. Another thing that is interesting about this article is the developing synergism between biologists and geologists and how each are informing the others of details from their bailiwick. Increasingly it is taking longer and longer for anyone to become an expert in a specialty, so I suspect that increasingly it will take collaborations to get revolutionary breakthroughs. That is probably a good thing anyway, people get blinders on as they become specialists.
