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The overall message: Life is an optimized version of the easiest steps. .008 '''The Origin of Life''' .034 '''DNA''' .060 '''Photosynthesis''' .088 '''The Complex Cell''' Mitochondria .. .118 '''Sex''' .144 '''Movement''' .172 '''Sight''' .205''' Hot Blood''' .232 '''Consciousness''' .260 '''Death''' ... happens after we no longer contribute to offspring. Natural selection cannot improve what it is blind to - old age. |
Nick Lane
biochemist at University College, London
Oxygen, The Molecule that made the World Oxford, 2002
- p215: James Lovelock estimates respired oxygen damage equivalent to whole body dose of 1 Sv (100 rem) per year.
- Fukushima was about 300 Sv to workers and population. At 1 cancer / 1000 Sv, that's about 0.3 cancers. The cancers caused by the coal plants Fukishima replaced are in the thousands.
Life Ascending The 10 Great Inventions of Evolution 2009
The overall message: Life is an optimized version of the easiest steps.
008 The Origin of Life
034 DNA
060 Photosynthesis
088 The Complex Cell Mitochondria ..
118 Sex
144 Movement
172 Sight
205 Hot Blood
232 Consciousness
260 Death ... happens after we no longer contribute to offspring. Natural selection cannot improve what it is blind to - old age.