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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
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Evolution and the Origin of Life
There is a recurring strain or theme in evolution that things start out, kind of, they start out kind of unnecessarily complicated. And then the selection pressure windows things down to a fighting trim. So it almost makes sense that it would have been an abundant, but kind of energetically messy situation. That citrate is something that maybe was like stumbled on later as like an improvement on this kind of. Once the trade was around, then we might as well use it for something else. But going back to that again to that question of ancestral environment. It does seem like it would sort of restrict the search.
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