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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Origin of Life

There's been an intellectual tradition in the origin of life as a field, going back to that milliori experiment the 19 fifties. And so they haven't really closed the distance between prebiotic chemistry and a cell as we know it. The reason i became very interested in it is because of alkaline hydrothermal vents where you have natural proton gradients across in cells. So this possibility that, cells have a structure has not been taken into account by chemists. They don't worry about reacting with other molecules like hydrogen or carbon dioxide. We need to synthesize dna, nd, r n a, n proteins fom very simple molecules. But then

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