When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ...For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. — Freeman Dyson (1)
About This Website Author | Copyright | Navigation | What'sNEWThe purpose of this website is to serve as a resource about Cosmic Ancestry, and to help establish it as a possible scientific account of the emergence and development of life on Earth. (In it, darwinian natural selection has a role but cannot produce sustained macroevolutionary progress or the origin of life.) The website is operated pro bono, without any revenue or profit motive.
 print or  web articles, are posted on the topic-appropriate pages. There, they and relevant  frontpage updates are all listed in reverse chronological order. Updates deemed especially significant may become entirely new webpages. For example, all but the first three pages under "Tests for Cosmic Ancestry" have been added since 1996.
Please email your comments about Cosmic Ancestry, inquiries or alerts about resources, and other suggestions to the author, following the link at the bottom of most webpages. We receive many useful suggestions from website visitors. Some emails may be posted to "Replies" if the sender consents; these are also archived and indexed. AcknowledgmentsThank you. Thank you very much. — Elvis Presley (2)This website is funded by the Astrobiology Research Trust. It was conceived as a book, and executed with help from many people. Three deserve special mention: Brig attended Princeton University and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee in 1975. He retired from the textile rental industry in 1995. Brig and Ellen Cooper Klyce have a daughter, Polly, and a son, Walter.
Publications in Print & Online Brig Klyce, "Some Things Are Simply Given" [pdf | docx | video],
doi:10.1016/S0065-2660(20)30036-5, Cosmic Genetic Evolution, NC Wickramasinghe, EJ Steele, eds., "Advances in Genetics," Oct 2020. NC Wickramasinghe, EJ Steele, RM Gorczynski et al., "On The Fragility of Empires and Paradigms" [2-pg pdf], doi:10.37421/Virol Curr Res.2020.4.112, 15 Apr 2020. Brig Klyce, "Sea Lilies on Ancient Mars" [pdf | docx], prepared for the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (SSoCIA), University of Mississippi, 26-29 Mar 2020. Ted Steele, Chandra Wickramasinghe et al., "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?" [OA paper | alt. url], pp3-23 v136 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Aug 2018. Brig Klyce, "Panspermia and Evolution by HGT" [12-min. video], University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 22 Aug 2015 (posted on YouTube 28 Aug 2016). Brig Klyce, "GTOs and HGT: Genes are older than expected and can be installed by horizontal gene transfer, especially with help from viruses" [7-page doc | SPIE abstract], Paper No. 8521-11, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XV [Table of Contents], SPIE, San Diego CA, 27 Sep (delivered 14 Aug) 2012. Brig Klyce and Chandra Wickramasinghe, "Creationism, Neo-Darwinism and Panspermia" [local pdf], Journal of Cosmology, online 11 Oct 2011. Brig Klyce, "Panspermia and Horizontal Gene Transfer" [abstract | 5-page pdf], doi:10.1117/12.832049, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7441, "Astrobiology XII: Instruments, Methods, and Missions," [Table of Contents], Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, Alexei Y. Rozanov, Kurt D. Retherford, eds., 11 Sep (conference 4-6 Aug) 2009. Brig Klyce: 18-minute interview about the Evolution Prize with Tom Barbalet of biota.org: [mp3 | local link], 2 Sep 2006. Elena V. Pikuta, Richard B. Hoover, Brig Klyce, Paul C. W. Davies and Pauline Davies, "Bacterial utilization of L-sugars and D-amino acids" [abstract | alternate], doi:10.1117/12.690434, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6309, "Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IX," [Table of Contents], Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, Alexei Y. Rozanov, eds., 5 Sep (conference presentation 14 Aug) 2006. Brig Klyce, "The Evolution Prize: Is Open-Ended Evolutionary Innovation in a Closed System Possible?" [2-page pdf]; 1-page version, p 123, ALife X: Workshop Proceedings, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, 3-7 Jun 2006. Max K. Wallis, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Shirwan Al-Mufti, Norimune Miyake, Milton Wainwright and Brig Klyce, "Search For Microbiology In Cryo-genically Collected Stratospheric Particles From Space" [abstract.doc], p 17, International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 2004: "Abstracts from the Astrobiology Science Conference 2004" [link], NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, 28 March - 1 April 2004. Brig Klyce and Chandra Wickramasinghe, "Creationism versus Darwinism: A Third Alternative" [pdf: 776 Kb], p 543-548, Darwinism, Design, and Public Education, John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer, eds., ISBN 0-87013-675-5, Michigan State University Press, 2003. Thomas Ray and Brig Klyce, "Comparing Standard Darwinism and Strong Panspermia: A Bioinformatic Analysis of Human, Mouse and Intervening Genomes" [print.gif:140kb | CD.gif:44kb | full poster.htm], p 172, Proceedings of the Astrobiology Science Conference 2002, April 7-11, 2002, at Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA. Brig Klyce, "Panspermia Asks New Questions" [abstract | html], doi:10.1117/12.435366, p 11-14, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum - Conference 22-24 January 2001, San Jose CA: SPIE Proceedings-4273, Stuart Kingsley and Ragbir Bhathal, eds. Brig Klyce, "Is Sustained Macroevolutionary Progress Possible?" [abstract.jpg], p 402, Proceedings of the First Astrobiology Science Conference, April 3-5, 2000, at Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA [html abstract | full poster]. Brig Klyce, "Cosmic Ancestry" [gif], IAA-99-IAA.8.2.04, 50th International Astronautical Congress, 4-8 Oct 1999 / Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Brig Klyce, "In Real or Artificial Life, Is Evolutionary Progress in a Closed System Possible?" [pdf], p 1444 v 2, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Orlando FL, 13-17 July 1999, W. Banzhaf et al., eds., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1999. N.C. Wickramasinghe, F. Hoyle and Brig Klyce, "Panspermia in perspective" [abstract | local pdf], doi:10.1117/12.319845, p 306, Instruments, Methods and Missions for Astrobiology - Conference 20-22 July 1998, San Diego CA: SPIE Proceedings-3441, Richard Hoover, ed.CopyrightCosmic Ancestry is published by the Astrobiology Research Trust (3). 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References1. "Innovation in Physics", Scientific American, Sep 1958 [cited in] Martin Gardner, The Night is Large, 1997, p79.2. Each highlighted number under "References" links you up from a footnote to the referenced point on the same page, like the Elvis quote above. Conversely, the link at the referenced point brings you down to the footnote. The footnote often has a link to the reference material, which may be external (on another website) or local (on this website). Most external links open in a new browser window (close to return). 3. Astrobiology Research Trust, founded 2002. Website Navigation and
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Chandra Wickramasinghe gave me valuable technical advice, hard-to-find resources, and many hours of his time and hospitality.
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