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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Inquiring Minds
A Very Short History of Life on Earth
Henry g has just published a new book called a very short history of life on earth. Henry, i would really like it if you would read a little bit from that very first chapter. The earliest living things were no more than scummy membranes across microscopic gaps in rock. They formed when the rising currents became turbulent and diverted into eddies. Life evolved in the deepest depths of the ocean where the edges of tectonic plates plunged into the crust. These simple bubbles found themselves at the very gates of life,. In that they found a way to halt, if temporarily and with great effort, the otherwise inexorable increase in entropy - such is an essential property of life.
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