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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Inquiring Minds
The Doughnut and the Nervous System
Life started by pumping pro ons across membranes. Once proto life er got the knack of separating molecules across semi permeable membranes, they were almost all the way there. The whole business about information, dana and genetics came later. I didn't want to do the usual science writing thing of saying, the informational molecule is dna, and it's a and c and g and t and yan. Yawn, yawn. i wanted to keep it as broad brush as i possibly could. And in the footnotes, you can look up whatever you like, but it's not essential to to enjoying the story, i hope no.
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