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Probably Science.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to probably science.

I'm Matt Kirshan.

I am Andy Wood.

And our guest is joining from the UK.

An old friend of mine from university who has gone on to be a journalist for new scientist and someone who actually carried on doing sciencey things

and has now written a book about the origin of life.

It is called The Genesis Quest, The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a journey to uncover the origin of life on Earth.

Hey, Michael Marshall, how are you doing?

Hey, Matt, I'm really well, thanks.

We should also explain at the top because there are...

You've been mentioned on the show before because articles you've written and new scientists in other places have been read out on the show.

But there's also... There are two Michael Marshalls, both of whom have been referenced on the show...

Yes, this comes up a lot, actually. Yes.

There's the one who works with the sics people in the north of England who did the homeopathy overdose.

Yeah, and I'm not him, and I've had to tell the Guardian that repeatedly.

Yeah, I was wondering if you get each other's emails and so on.

Yeah, it's come up. they once tried to pay him for an article that i'd written um we had to have a sort of and

they were very apologetic blessed and i just i was like okay you know what that those things

i could get cross with them for like being really stupid and then that was just like you know what we do actually have the same name and we even look

alike like I wear glasses and I don't think he does but apart from that you actually

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