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220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee

You Are Not So Smart

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How Did Life Begin?

Life began by molecules adhering to rocks or minerals with catalytic surfaces, which stuck them close enough together long enough for them to react. Life can only have come from a particular kind of deep sea hydrothermal rent because that's the only place where you'd have the right chemistry. And i had to invent these membranes, because life is all about one. You get a membrane, youcan separate one thing from another thing, and then you can have some kind of a little gateway through the membrane that allows some things an through, but not others. Even if it's just like a sieve, even if it's better than nothing at concentrating somethings in what you get

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