Life first invented the battery er and invented ways of manipulating chemical energy across membranes. And once you've done that, you've got the basis of lifeb it drives chemical reactions that might not otherwise be driven. Once you put all these things together, you get these little membrane bound bubbles with constent contemplates of em nucleic acids and things in the middle. Then you can have evolution to happen. So that's my take on it. Of course, it is very speculative, and no one will actually know. But what i was trying to do with that part was put together all the things that i thought most likelyr to happen and put them in one story. I didn't want
In this episode, we sit down with Henry Ernest Gee, the paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature.
I was honored to get the opportunity chat with one of the absolute titans of science journalism and science communication about his new book: A Very Short History of Life on Earth, 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters.
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