The Great Quest

Michael Marshall is a British science journalist whose articles regularly appear in the pages of the Observer, Nature, New Scientist, and Telegraph. Additionally, he is the editor of the BBC Earth website, a well-known television channel specializing in scientific documentaries.... "The Great Quest" is Marshall's first book, in which he has long been passionately engaged in the global issue of the origin of life on Earth or elsewhere, in the depths of space? The author conducted numerous interviews with researchers, explored the legacy of those who tentatively asked questions about the origin of life in past centuries, and was surprised to discover that serious scientific interest in the search for answers to this question emerged only in the early last century. There are many theories about the emergence of life, fierce debates continue, and the author analyzes the hypotheses in detail, many of which seem quite exotic.