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There is no necessary trajectory from simple life to complexity: without photosynthesis or eukaryotes, the planet could have stayed bacteria and nothing else.

Drawn from what Nick Lane said

Subjectevolutionary biology
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evolutionary biology Natural selection as an explanation, including the problem of how cooperation survives it.

What Nick Lane actually said

  1. Nick Lane Biochemist at University College London
    So, there is no necessary trajectory towards great complexity in human beings at the end of it. It’s very easy to imagine that without photosynthesis arising or without eukaryotes arising, that the planet could be full of bacteria and nothing else.

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    Watch from 0:21:44 plays here

    ↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com

    7 Sept 2022 · video · 3h 43m · spoken · official transcript

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