Do you feel lucky? A biologist explains we exist because of A Series of Fortunate Events
Sean B. Carroll argues that understanding the randomness of the geological and chemical processes that gave rise to life as we know it can be perspective-changing
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Posted: Dec 18, 2020 1:39 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Biologist Sean B. Carroll argues in his new book that we are only here due to pure chance. In fact, he says there were 70 trillion possible ways your parents could have genetically shuffled their chromosomes to make you unique.(Ethan Miller / Getty Images)