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The Origin of Life: How Information Comes From Genes

I don't think you're going to do it without how do you 100? Yeah, 100. I'm fairly persuaded now from our own experiments, but other people's work around the world as well in the last five, six, seven years. A lot of metabolism is spontaneously self-organizing. Even just introducing a piece of RNA is actually going to change a metabolic rate because you're now polymerizing nucleotides. So even making a completely random piece of RNA makes you better at doing what you were doing before than if you hadn't done that. It's kind of interesting insights into what is information in biology, where is it coming from? And it's what it seems to

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