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220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee

You Are Not So Smart

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A Book Review - Life Is a Repeating Pattern

"These foamy lathers of soap bubble cells stood as tiny, clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. These simple bubbles found themselves at the very gates of life," he writes. "They found a way to halt ... the otherwise inexorable increase in intropy,. the net amount of disorder in the universe." 'Such is an essential property of life,' Isi adds.'I love this idea that life is a repeating pattern that gets better at repeating.'

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