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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

What Makes Us Alive?

Only 38 genes in the midochondria. That's nont so tiny. And for that reason, there they're mostly ignored. This is the difference between just information n and a living system where it's growing. You get anything wrong with those geanes, or they don't work properly with te nuclear background, and you've compromised the entire living system.

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