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   >>>>> Life" that is based on this was published in 2019. Note Bruce   
   >>>>> Damer's call for a new approach to OoL, and note the uncanny   
   >>>>> alignment with Tour, Bains, Long Story Short, etc:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 4:29 “[OoL research has] been mainly focused on individual solution   
   >>>>> chemistry experiments where they want to show polymerization over   
   >>>>> here, or they want to show metabolism over here, and Dave and I   
   >>>>> believe that it's time for the field to go from incremental   
   >>>>> progress to substantial progress. So, these are the four points   
   >>>>> we've come up with to make substantial progress in the origin of   
   >>>>> life, and the first one is to employ something called system   
   >>>>> chemistry, having sufficient complexity so instead of one   
   >>>>> experiment say about proteins, now you have an experiment about the   
   >>>>> encapsulation of proteins for example, and informational molecules   
   >>>>> built from nucleotides in an environment that would say be like an   
   >>>>> analog of the early Earth, build a complex experiment. Something   
   >>>>> we're calling sufficient complexity, and all of these experiments   
   >>>>> have to move the reactions away from equilibrium. And what do we   
   >>>>> mean by that? Well, in in your high school chemistry experiments,   
   >>>>> something starts foaming something changes color and then the   
   >>>>> experiment winds down and stops. Well, life didn't get started that   
   >>>>> way. Life got started by a continuous run-up of complexity and   
   >>>>> building upon in a sense nature as a ratchet. So we have to figure   
   >>>>> out how to build experiments that move will move away from   
   >>>>> equilibrium…”   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 6:31 “You can't sit in a laboratory just using glassware. You have   
   >>>>> to go to the field. You have to go to hot springs, you have to go   
   >>>>> to […] Iceland and come check and sit down and see what the natural   
   >>>>> environment is like, rather than being in the ethereal world of   
   >>>>> pure reactants and things like that…”   
   >>>>>   
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