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Nick Lane Famous Quotes & Sayings
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NASA 'working definition' of life, for example: life is 'a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution'.
it's no mystery that all cells here on earth should be chemiosmotic. I would expect that cells across the universe will be chemiosmotic too.
Essentially all life uses redox chemistry to generate a gradient of protons across a membrane. Why on earth do we do that?
Without programmed cell death, the bonds that bind cells in complex multicellular organisms might never have evolved.
Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.
But whatever our beliefs, this richness of understanding should be a cause for marvel and celebration.