Nick Lane
Person on 4 sites
Biochemist at University College London, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry and author of The Vital Question and Transformer.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Oxygen in the atmosphere makes a fresh origin of life impossible, which is why life cannot be starting over in hydrothermal vents today. (opens korrents.com)
“It’s possible it started multiple occasions. There’s two provisos to that. One of them is oxygen makes it impossible really for life to start. So, as soon as we’ve got oxygen in the atmosphere, then life isn’t going to…”
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Life probably arose only once on Earth, and the deep split between bacteria and archaea is the evidence for it. (opens korrents.com)
“But there’s a very interesting deep split in life between bacteria and what are called archaea, which look just the same as bacteria. And they’re not quite as diverse, but nearly, and they are very different in their…”
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The primordial soup is a miracle story: life needs a continuous flow of reaction, and a soup can never provide one. (opens korrents.com)
“So, how did they do that? You may as well say that a miracle happened. I don’t believe in soup. I think what we have in a vent is a continuous conversion, a continuous growth, a continuous reaction, a continuous…”
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Oxygen in the atmosphere makes a fresh origin of life impossible, which is why life cannot be starting over in hydrothermal vents today. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Black Cloud (opens rcmnd.app)
“When I was about 15 or 16, I remember reading a book by Fred Hoyle called The Black Cloud, which I was a budding biologist at the time and this was the first time I’d come across someone really challenging the heart of…”
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The Black Cloud (opens rcmnd.app)