'Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that
women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education.
She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement.
Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley,
who became an accomplished writer and the author of Frankenstein."
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"That would make Luca a chemoautotroph: an organism able to make the chemicals it needs from simple ones formed in geological processes. But it could also have been a heterotroph, dependent on chemicals made in metabolic reactions by other organisms in the ecosystem. At any rate, the new study shows that Luca had quite a complex set of metabolic enzyme machinery: it wasn’t a rough first draft of life, but already a pretty sophisticated and refined piece of work, suggesting that it had already been evolving for ages. "
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