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Evolution of Life on the Early Earth

Under what conditions did prebiotic organic compounds form and how did they polymerise? When did life first evolve, what was it, and how did it metabolise? How has biological innovation through time impacted the composition of the Earth’s surface? These are just some of today’s many unresolved questions, and for many, we have only scratched the surface.

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Sir William Osler, 1849-1919

 Sir William Osler was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada, and like Sir Sandford Fleming, should keep the rest of us very, very humble. Osler has been termed the Father of Modern Medicine, one of the “greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope,” and the “best known physician in the English-speaking world by the turn of the century.”

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