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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Life About Metabolism?

There aren't camps there. There are different ways of coming up with the requirements that biology has. Formation is obviously one of the requirements. But it's not really that i'm saying that life is about metabolism. Obviously, it needs jeans and information. And if you have some kind of proto metabolism, and jeanes are introduced into that, what do they do? They speed up the proto metabolism. They make it better than it was before. And so they havea a purpose or use from the very beginning, i think. I mean, again, this might be unfair, thog correct if iam wrong. Youknow, the big picture message that seems to be coming across in

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