Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (Ep 63 Re-release)
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Is There a Contingency in the Cycles of Life on Earth?
The templeton foundation, for example, has a call out at the moment to try and answer that question. How much contingency is there if you were to play the tape twice? In stephen j. Gould's language, i believe that that's an attackable question. We can set up sort of evolving biaspheres, as we've done in some of our work,. And do it thousands and thousands of times and get some idea of the expected distribution of outcomes on other worlds. I believe we're at the point where we can sa fer molecular philogenetics and molecular clocks roughly when particular metabolisms arose plus or minus hov many hundred millions years. New metabolisms would
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