Our big questions, at least.
And the winners are...
- How would we recognise evolution on other substrates? How would we detect life on another planet?
- Are there genetic grammars common to all of life?
- What do we need to know about law in biology to explore questions in astrobiology?
- Can we conceive of evolution beginning with an excess of complexity? Evolution by reduction?
- How to build a minimal living thing?
...and we breakout into working groups, and get to work.
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