Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Evolution of Life on Earth
Life on earth has had a very peculiar trajectory. It started very early, so far as we can tell, four billion years ago. Then this one cell type arises once in four billion years. And and then we have this enormous explosive radiation of the major different groups of ucareotic cell types. But they're all basically the same cell structure. Would it be this way o another? Can we predict? I am approaching the physicists view again as well, about trying to predict from first principles, what we might expect to see as life on another planet.
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