Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Theoretical Explanation of Fatty Acids
fatty acidsre the the lipids in our own membranes aispasilyyou you got at one end a coupleo oxygen atoms with a charge on them, so it's a negative charge. Then you got a chain of carbons all joined together a and they are, they call e hydrophobit. They like oil he they don't like water very much. And they spontaneously form a by lair. So if you've got any way of making those fatty acids and concentrating them enough, which is not as hard as it might sound,. then they will spontaneously form structures that are basically cell like in their structure.
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