Where do we come from?: a humbling look at the biology of life's origin - includes related articles

http://www.seti.org/seti-top.html

The page of $ETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). Lots of educational material, bibliographic references, and links. There is even a gift shop!

http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/95articies/cdeduve.html

An article on the origin of life published in the electronic version of American Scientist, a magazine worth checking out in and of itself.

http://www.exobiology.nasa.gov/

The very cool NASA site on exobiology (the study of life outside our planet).

http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/news/mars/

Devoted to the red planet and the possibility of life on it. Extensive links and NASA press releases.

http://bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov/~odenwald/ask/alife.html

A cute NASA Question and Answer page on life in the universe, its origin, and its evolution.

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/biology/biology 15.html

A "Scientific American - Ask the Experts" site where James Ferris of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, gives concise but up-to-date information on what we know about the origin of life. Some good links provided.

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bulletins/bulletin-summer97/turning.html

An article from the controversial but stimulating Santa Fe Institute, devoted to research on complexity theory. It deals with Mars and self-replicating proteins.

Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1100; E-mail: pigliucci@utk.edu; http://fp.bio.utk.edu/skeptic.

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