Zócalo Public SquareThese Days, Darwin Would Need To Know More About Jupiter – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 These Days, Darwin Would Need To Know More About Jupiter https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/10/these-days-darwin-would-need-to-know-more-about-jupiter/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/10/these-days-darwin-would-need-to-know-more-about-jupiter/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:01:12 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=43856 The more we learn about the universe, the more it looks like the building blocks of life—organic molecules, amino acids, planets near a sun—are present throughout. Much of what we used to consider unique to Earth is in fact shared by the cosmos, and life on other planets seems as likely as ever to exist. This has implications for both astronomy and biology, two fields that traditionally have been considered separate. In advance of the Zócalo event “Was Human Life Inevitable?” we asked several people from the world of science to contemplate the following question: what can astronomers teach biologists?

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