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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Reverse Transcriptase - The Greatest Invention in the History of Life
The ribosome was so efficient at making proteins, all the other ones basically died out. And now those proteins are much more versatile because RNA only has four bases. Proteins eventually have 20 amino acids and they can form in much more complex shapes. So you basically now have RNA. That's one of the great invention in the history of life.
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