#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

4032.819 - 4063.62 Lee Cronin

Yeah, and it appears that you can do some dating. Now, there are really good techniques. There's radiocarbon dating. There is longer dating, going looking at radioactive minerals and so on. And you can also, in bone... you can look at what happens after something dies. You get what's called racemization, where the chirality in the polymers basically changes and you get decomposition.