Question Part 3: Some Scientific Explorations Your final task here will be to investigate various scientific ideas

Part 3: Some Scientific Explorations

Your final task here will be to investigate various scientific ideas on how life could have arisen from non-life. For the sake of simplicity, we will watch one of two lectures (NOTE: you don’t have to watch both unless you want to) by origins of life researchers:

• The Origins of Cellular Life by Origins of Life Research and Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak
• Assembling Life- How can life begin on Earth and other habitable planets? By Origins of Life Researcher Dave Deamer

After/as you are watching the video answer the following:

• What are some of the conditions that we have evidence for concerning the early Earth?
• What are some of the various hypotheses that origins of life researchers have explored?
• What are some of the successes of origins of life researchers?
• What are some things that we don’t know about the origins of life?
• What are some of the approaches origins of life researchers are taking to try and close these gaps in understand?