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What does the evidence say?

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A laboratory reaction supports one step of the vent hypothesis
At 2:16 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (external site)
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The head-shape experiment altered signaling, not a single gene
At 26:16 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: International Journal of Molecular Sciences (external site)
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The mitochondrial energy argument has a published counterargument
At 43:16 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site); Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (external site)
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Alternative genetic polymers demonstrate possibility within an engineered system
At 58:06 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Science (external site)
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Nuclear ancestry cannot be inferred from mitochondrial absence alone
At 1:20:42 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Science (external site)
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Bacterial electrical signaling does not establish subjective experience
At 1:43:27 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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Predicting a structure answers a different question from reconstructing folding
At 2:05:11 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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A fruit-fly interaction study does not quantify missing human heritability
At 2:13:06 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (external site)
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Hydrogen in a moon’s plume supports a habitable-energy question
At 2:33:27 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Science (external site)
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Isotope records constrain ancient oceans without proving one inevitable pathway
At 2:41:49 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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A feedback model does not require a planet to reproduce
At 3:05:56 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Tellus B (external site)
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Climate risk increases with warming rather than depending on one deadline
At 3:38:18 in Lex Fridman Podcast
Sources: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (external site)