Origins of Life

Web Resources for Research into the Origin & Evolution of Life

For an introduction into current efforts to understand the origins and evolution of life the following sites have proved useful.  Kinohi Home Page

Institutes

• The Spitzer Science Center

• The Spitzer Space Telescope

• Space Science & Astrobiology @ NASA Ames

• Santa Fe Institute

• The SETI Institute

• Astrobiology Institute

• Mars meteorite information

• Lunar and Planetary Institute

• Extraterrestrial Samples - Johnson Space Center

• International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life (ISSOL)

Journals

• Icarus

• Astrobiology

• International Journal of Astrobiology

• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Sites of Special Interest:

Many of these have been created or inspired by the students we all hope are far ahead of us in curiosity, wisdom, and intelligence.

• The Cool Cosmos

• The Challenger Center for Space Science Education

People Instrumental In Understanding the Origin & Evolution of Life in the Universe

Scientists whose work was often 'ahead of their times'.

• Barbara McClintock: Jumping Genes

• Lynn Margulis: Symbiogenesis and Gaia

• Baruch Blumberg: Hepatitis and Viral Adaptation

• Rebecca Elson: A Responsibility to Awe

• Marie Curie: Radiation and Life

• Rosalind Franklin: single stranded viruses

• Hepatia of Alexandria: Mathematics and the People