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Fogel mined information from isotopes to explore modern and ancient ecosystems, climatic changes, and evolution.

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EPA’s Scott Pruitt Doesn’t Buy Evolution

Building Blocks of Life May Have Formed in Water Droplets

In Canada, Signs of Life Nearly 4 Billion Years Old

Asgard Archaea Hint at Eukaryotic Origins

Further Evidence that Life Might Have Started with RNA

Accomplished Biophysicist Dies

Life Before 4 Billion Years Ago?

Early Code

The Living Set

On the Origins of Life

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Matthew Powner: Origin Solver

Is Earth Special?

Discovering Archaea, 1977

Speaking of Science

RNA World 2.0

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