Marcus Chown

search for extraterrestrial intelligence

10 bonkers things about the solar system’

illustrates perfectly the mind-boggling emptiness of matter

I manage to convey some of this strangeness – and wonder.

a few amazing facts about the universe to trot out at parties.

creatures were so exquisitely tailored for their environments

the raw material for natural selection to work on

The blueprint for an organism is

Conceivably, the first cell – dubbed the ‘last universal common ancestor’

a host population can survive their relentless onslaught by changing even more rapidly.