David Christian: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Hardcover, Little, Brown and Company)
"Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But …
the Murchison meteorite, which fell to Earth near Murchison, Australia, in 1969, contained amino acids and several of the chemical bases that we find in DNA.
— Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian