b'FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RELATED TOPICSbreakbreak// RELATED LINKS: Life on Earth & Beyond an SFI Community Lecture The Physical Constraints of Life & Evolution on SFIs Complexity Podcast Origins of Life an SFI Complexity Explorer Course Origins of Life in Space an InterPlanetary Festival Discussion with Caleb ScharfORIGINS OF LIFE RESEARCHERS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PHOSPHINESANTAFE,N.M. Phosphinehasbeen discovered on Venus, and Santa Fe Institute Professor Chris Kempes remains skeptical aboutitssignificanceasabiosignature. Kempesisanexpertinthefieldof biological architecturewhich may include phenomenarangingfromexplicitbiologicalmorphologyto metabolic and genetic network structureas an intermediate betweenorganismphysiologyandenvironmentalconditions. Mathematicalandphysicaltheorieslieattheheartofhis methodologies to predict how evolution has shaped architecture and how this, in turn, forms a foundation for reliable predictions of environmental response and interaction. His work spans the scales of genetic information architecture to the morphology of microbial individuals and communities to the regional variation of plant traits and their feedback with climate and available resources.Page 7Page 7'