Nick Lanes on Sean Carroll's podcast

[BillTre]

TL;DR Summary

Nick Lanes is a primary proponent of a metabolisms first, alkaline hydrothermal vent approach to the origin of life. He has just published a book on how core metabolism could have preceded the origin of life. He has a new book on this stuff.

Here is one of Sean Carrol's podcasts. He talks with Nick Lane who is one of the most interesting (to me) people publishing on origin of life issues. He takes a strong metabolism first approach to the origin of life and also strongly favors alkaline hydrothermal vents as the site for where life emerged.
He has a new book out: Transformer: the deep chemistry of life and death.

 

[BillTre]

Here is another video I just found by Nick Lane.
This one is nice in that he is only talking about origin of life issues and goes into a lot of detail on how early biochemistry might have worked.

 

[pinball1970]

@BillTre

This was in phys.org last week

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300687120

I quick flick through the refs and all the usual suspects there including Russel, Lane, Oparin, Wächtershäuser.
There was a debate on YT regarding research on abiogenesis recently (interesting but not for pf )