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Main Page From Jump to: navigation , search .Biota.org. What is the Terrestrial Wiki? The Terrestrial Wiki is a research site and community supporting work on the Terrestrial Hypothesis which proposes that life began on land in fluctuating fresh water environments such as hydrothermal fields. "But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity etcetera present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes [..] " ~Charles Darwin, in a letter to Joseph Hooker (1871) Jul 2016: Slides presented at the Australasian Astrobiology meeting, Perth (in Slideshare): An Origin of Life in Salt Water or Fresh Water? Powerpoint version is downloadable here . Participating Teams, Individuals and their Publication Lists U.C. Santa Cruz, Department of Biomolecular Engineering , Santa Cruz, California USA: Dr. Bruce Damer and Prof. David Deamer Publist: Deamer-Damer Institute , McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Australian Centre for Astrobiology , University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia Center for Chemical Evolution , Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia USA Cronin Lab , University of Glasgow, Scotland UK University of Paris , Paris, France. Lynn Rothschild Lab , NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California USA Other participating organizations: Harry Lonsdale Research Award DigitalSpace Research , Boulder Creek, California USA Terrestrial Models and Hypotheses The Coupled Phases Model Developed between 2010 and 2013, drafted for publication in 2014 and first published in March 2015. 2016 May 2016: Find the essay A Field Trip to the Archaean in Search of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond in the journal Life. Jan 2016: Find the the GRS conference poster here and the poster handout here 2015 Mar 2015: Find the first publication Coupled Phases and Combinatorial Selection in Fluctuating Hydrothermal Pools: A Scenario to Guide Experimental Approaches to the Origin of Cellular Life in the journal Life and PDF version here . Video and Audio VIDEO Jul 2015: A two part talk at the Strelley Pool stromatolite discovery outcrop by the Shaw River, Western Australia, Part 1: David Deamer's talk and Part 2: Bruce Damer's talk introduced by Malcolm Walter, UNSW and recorded and produced by Tara Djokic. Apr 2015: Bruce Damer's TEDx talk: In the Beginning: The Origin & Purpose of Life Jan 2015: Bruce Damer and David Deamer's SETI Institute presentation: A New Model for the Origin of Life AUDIO Aug 2015: Levity Zone podcast of Bruce Damer's TEDx talk and Astrobiology Science Conference talk, Chicago July 2015 A project of Biota.org Retrieved from " http://origins.biota.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=71 " Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Namespaces Main page Discussion Variants Views Read View source View history More Search Navigation Main page Recent changes Random page Help Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information This page was last modified on 31 August 2016, at 05:29. Privacy policy About Disclaimers...