About the book: year / Michael Marshall is a British science journalist whose articles regularly appear on the pages of the Observer, Nature, New Scientist and Telegraph. He is also the editor of the BBC Earth website. a widely known television channel specializing in scientific documentaries. “The Great Quest” is the first book by Marshall, who has long been passionately dealing with the global problem of the origin of life on Earth (or not on Earth, but in the depths of space?) of life. The author interviewed many researchers, studied the legacy of those who timidly wondered about the origin of life in past centuries, and was surprised to discover that science became seriously interested in finding an answer to this question only at the beginning of the last century. There are many theories of the origin of living things, fierce debates do not subside, and the author analyzes in detail the hypotheses, many of which seem very exotic. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.