Likes The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.

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…I apologize for the pothead questions ahead of time, but do you think we’ll be able to simulate a model, the origin of life? So being able to simulate the first from non-living organisms, the birth of a living organism? I think that’s one of course one of the deepest and most fascinating questions. I love that area of biology. There’s people, there’s a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. I think it’s fantastic. And it also speaks to what the great filters might be, prior or are they ahead of us? I think they’re most likely in the past, if you read that book of how unlikely to go have any life at all. And then single cell to multi-cell seems an unbelievably big jump that took a billion years, I think on earth to do, right? So it shows you how hard it was. Right? Bacteria were super happy for a very long time.…

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