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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Can We Hit Them? Is It a Can to a Mutation?

The harder we hit the cells, the more likely they were to respond by changes right at where we hit it. We see translation machinery as almost, it is so conserved and so essential. So why does it not do multitasking? Why is it not improving multiple things simultaneously? The bigger the evolutionary distance of the thing you put in there, the harder the hit is how you think about it, the bigger the hammer.

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