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. In addition, 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, who has long been passionately engaged in the global problem of the origin of life on Earth or somewhere in the depths of space? The author has conducted numerous interviews with researchers, examined the legacy of those who timidly questioned the origin of life in past centuries, and was surprised to find that serious science became interested in searching for answers to this question only in the early last century. There are many theories about the emergence of life, fierce debates continue, and the author thoroughly analyzes the hypotheses, many of which seem quite exotic.