I had no idea

[james_davis_nicoll]

As pointed out in email, JEP on evolution.

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[tandw.livejournal.com]

Biologists should look for very low complexity "life", in my opinion. Billions of atoms is too much.

OTOH, I would expect very low-complexity "life" to have been eaten by the more complex stuff as it comes into existence. Essentially, the conditions that were favorable to the development of protolife/less complex self-replicators have long since been changed beyond recognition by the presence of life here.