The Origins of Life
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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We Are Pretty Closely Related to Mushrooms
We are very closely related to mushrooms, for example. All the evidence firmly points towards there being a single origin of life. But what we do not know is whether life emerged because it might be energetically inevitable. It may be that we are here because in one ocean somewhere at one point, a cell got inside another cell, and this thing lived.
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