The Dopaminergic System and the Thermal Ocean Vent Theory

Pussy: I was just at a conference with the anthropologist Wade Davis. He was a Harvard ethnobotanist, literally like real life Indiana Jones. And this other fellow Dr. Bruce Damo has advanced a novel theory of the origins of life to kind of it's going head-to-head with the thermal ocean vent thesis. Pussy: So that being true, not just in primordial suit and literally the bathtub ring around the hot springs of your right, but then also the next level of novelty is dendritic replication. The third level was the dopaminergic system because I was like, what happens when you get spinal columns and neurochemistry?

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