Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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What's Going on With Bacteria?
Bacteria simply are structurally constrained. They breathe, in effect, across their membrane. So what you have to do to survive is not worrying about the outside, it's worrying about the inside well. All these ucartic sals have got all the same traits because they were all dealing with this same problem very early on in their evolution.
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