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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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The Complexity of a Cell

In the early part of the 20th century, we couldn't see much of that complexity. It was just a bunch of protoplasm. And then they begin discovering what is in the nucleus and what is a membrane. So people have computed because they'll keep saying cells were much simpler back then than they are now. But I mean, how simple... I didn't know that one.

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