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Episode 120: Dr. Bruce Dame - The Hot Springs Hypothesis and the Origin of Life
How did life actually begin — and did it start in Yellowstone's boiling hot springs instead of the deep ocean? In this episode, astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer joins Jeremy to unpack the hot springs hypothesis, the origin-of-life theory he co-developed with biophysicist David Deamer that's reshaping how scientists think about where the first living cells came from. Bruce walks through the childhood vision at age 14 that set his entire career in motion, the wet-dry cycling experiments in volcanic pools that produce trillions of protocells, and why his NASA background in virtual worlds and…
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