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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Alphabet of Life
All life starts with the same start. There's no other start code. So you sent the AUG to the cell that when that information arrives, the translation knows, right? I got to start functions coming. Now we jump to languages that humans spoke human history. Exactly. We make trees to understand what is the original ancestor. What did they use to say snow and if you have a lot of cultures who use the word snow, you can imagine that it was snowy. That's why they needed that word. It's the same thing for biology, right? If they have some function about that enzyme, we can understand the environment that they lived in. In this case, it's
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