Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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What Happened Once?
We all go back to a single common ancestor. By definition, that common ancestor can only have arisen once. So it already had an enormous complexity. And the only other things we know about in the world are things with trivial complexity - bacteria and the archa. There's a black holeand regardless of whether any of these ideas are right or not, we have no idea. We really don'tb just so i'm not trying to be rso i've no probeing cdof but i can't, i'm arken to be ceard, cause i don't know anything.
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