Dimensions
107 x 140 x 17mm
2 Cassettes
'Seven Clues to the Origin of Life' is about how life may have arisen on Earth. The tape is read by Cairns-Smith as a detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes - particularly Holmes' principle that one should always use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. The origin of life is full of paradoxical difficulties, as well as clues and red herrings, but all of these, when disentangled, lead to a new view of how life began. This tape answers the fundamental question: what kind of stuff was it that our ultimate ancestors were made of?
