THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM. An Essay in the Philosophy of Science There is a peculiar dishonesty at the heart of modern biology—not a dishonesty of data, but of tone. How did life begin? After seventy years of origin-of-life research—from the RNA World hypothesis to hydrothermal vents, from warm ponds to metabolism-first models—this … Continue reading Why We Still Don’t Know How Life Began