“Transformer” by Nick Lane

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  • The body is chocked full of machines that transform hundreds of times a second
  • Biological processes are circular: add more and get more
  • There is no difference between chemical and biological processes, but we still do not know why one is alive and the other is not
  • The KERB cycle is a cataclysm, not a furnace
  • Respiration evolved long before photosynthesis
  • “Energy flows; Matter cycles”
  • Free radicals do not cause aging but aging causes more free radicals
  • Identical twins are not actually identical because mitochondrial genes are different

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