Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Bacteria are structurally constrained. They breathe, in effect, across their membrane a. So they breathe through their skin. Am and and ucarus don't. We've internalized it in in mitochondria, which were bacteria once. And so what you have is a population of living things inside a population of celves. That is probably the single defining moment of the whole history of lifewich it changes how selection pressures work. What you have to do to survive is not worrying about the outside world. It's worrying about the inside world.
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