Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Can We Cross an Energy Barrier?
Life is about chemistry, and chemistry happens quickly or it doesn't happen at all. We don't really have a feel for time in biology. And that goes even more for the origin of life. So my feeling is that producing organics had to happen quickly an on a large scale. But if you start thinking about the origin of molecular machines, the protein building factory is called ribus omes. It's very hard to know how do these how do these appear in the first place? Is it selection operating on what? Because we have no genes at that point.
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