Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitablePub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life.He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents.Nick’s story may be wrong, but I find it remarkable that with just that starting point, you can explain so much about why life is the way that it is — the things you’re supposed to just take as…
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