SPACE - Maybe Mars Seeded Earth’s Life, Maybe It Didn’t

The idea that a young Mars, some four billion years ago, was a far more hospitable and temperate place is not particularly controversial – although it is certainly not understood in any great detail. Now, at the annual Goldschmidt conference on geochemistry, the notion that it was Mars, not the Earth, that was the better place for life’s origins has been getting some attention. Indeed, as reported in this piece at BBC News, it sounds like there might be quite a robust case for martian beginnings.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2013/08/29/maybe-ma