Does the deep past live with us, encoded in the structure of our institutions?

Blair Fix

One of the challenges of studying the past is that time has a maddening way of erasing evidence. Take the origin of life — the ultimate cold case. Had the first organisms been wise enough to fossilize themselves, we would know exactly how life began. Fortunately, the first organisms
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preserve themselves, at least in rough form. That’s because life is itself a kind of time capsule.

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