evolutionary biology 9
- Oxygen in the atmosphere makes a fresh origin of life impossible, which is why life cannot be starting over in hydrothermal vents today.
- The eukaryotic cell is the single biggest invention in the whole history of life.
Nick Lane
Biochemist at University College London, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry and author of The Vital Question and Transformer.
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consciousness 4
- Consciousness exists to override a rational decision that cannot be made, substituting an emotional judgement when there is too much conflicting information.
- Feelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment.
space 2
- If we found a thousand life forms across the universe, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.
- There are far fewer alien civilizations than people would like to believe, because the road from bacteria to humans has huge gaps in it.