Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview
"A rich source for the specialist and thought-provoking reading for the lay person."  --Gunter Wachtershauser, University of Regensburg, Germany"Essential reading for people in disciplines ranging from philosophy to biology. It is simple the best general book that I know on the question of the origin of life." - --Michael Ruse, author of Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?"Fry has fashioned a masterful account of the history, philosophy, and science of the origin of life and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Her story weaves profound Western ideas of who we are and where we came from, from Aristotle to Gould, from Kant to NASA."  --Woodruff Sullivan, University of Washington