co - author dr zita martins , a geologist and astrobiologist from royal hall university , asserts their findings suggest that some of the elements that created immortality on soil came from meteorites artillery . " we are not suggesting that only magnetite contributed to the grinding block of life , " she said , " but it ' s a very great contributions . " other researchers , however , do not agree that meteoritic chemicals played such a significant character . writing to emeritus academic robert shapiro of new york university , " they ' re a subunit of a chapter of dna . my opinion is that their amounts were virtually mundane and insignificant . " wikinews contacted scientist bernard davies , a physicist and astrobiologist presently at washington state institute , about the recent findings . while he agreed with the findings , he admitted that he thinks such discoveries are " a red sock in the inception of life story - a hangover from the owen - urey experiment . humanity is all about information - its replication and processing . "
Shapiro teaches at NY University.