Posted in MonthMarch 2018
in BLOG, Chandra Wickramasinghe's BLOG, History 2018-7-26: LIFE IS A COSMIC PHENOMENON: AN IMMINENT PARADIGM SHIFT OF MOMENTOUS SIGNIFICANCE
The first proposal of life being a cosmic phenomenon was made nearly 4 decades ago by myself, Chandra Wickramasinghe, and the late Sir Fred Hoyle. As might have been expected the idea was controversial and bitterly contested at the time. However, in the intervening years a raft of evidence from astronomy, biology, and geology have...
In 1981 when the most startling example of extremophilic microorganisms known was possibly M radiodurans, Fred Hoyle and I wrote this in “Evolution from Space” : “Bacteria are found occupying tiny specialised niches. Thus J.G. Zeikus and R.S. Wolfe(3) isolated a highly thermophylic methanogenic bacterium which required conditions for replication that were very peculiar, namely an...
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