Guest speaker: Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer delivering his 2003 Palenque Norte Lecture

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017

Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Dr. Bruce Damer. As he describes the life-long journey that has led him to search for the origin of life on Earth, you may be surprised at how forthcoming he is about the ways in which he thought about this problem.

"Our common ancestor is a community, not an individual. . . . We did not come from competing individuals, we came from a collaborative network of simple things that were donating innovations and tools to a communal structure." -Bruce Damer

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