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Powering the complexity of life with Michael Levin and Nick Lane | Reason with Science | Biology | Evolution

Reason with Science

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The Christie Membrane and the Origin of Life

There are, again, there are stunning structures to the Christie membranes. We tend to just see them as a wavy line and a textbook, but they're very structured. Sometimes you get amazing kind of arrays of triangular shapes and things. There's nothing in known bioinogenetics that says what that why they have triangular shaped Christie. So for you, um, metabolism is like central to bioelectricity. I think the two are connected and are integrated that way. Nick: Since you already mentioned how these systems will evolve, let's talk about it.

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