
Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Evolution of Life on Earth
Life on earth has had a very peculiar actory it. It started very early, so far as we can tell, four billion years ago. And and then we have this enormous explosive radiation of the geo different groups of careotic cell types. But they're all basically the same cell structure. A and they. Theyre thr ust name. These are justively wrongly as well, these things, because if you don't know anything, you get the sense that they're the oldest thing around. You would think so. No why they were named that way, but they're almost certainly not any older than the bacteria. Tey're probably about the same age.
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