by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Once cooperation had evolved the first cell there were apparently metabolic processes inside of it that could not simply keep getting bigger. Instead, the growing cell divided, and then kept on dividing. There were few limits in the early ocean. Two questions are...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
How does cooperation work in the creation of the first cell? We go into the molecules of water itself to find a place where this process may have begun. In the traditional view, molecules of water can be tightly organized in ice, loosely collected in liquid...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
This chapter focuses on the idea of cooperation and looks at examples in the “nonliving” world, before beginning to talk about the self-generating systems from which life arose. An important function of cooperation is that it creates a new, quite real, entity out of...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Although compounds of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen can be found in the large molecular clouds that are the nurseries for solar systems, it is a long, long journey from them to even the simplest kinds of life. The simple bacterium is thought to be one of the first...
by Neil Dale | Nov 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
The story of life begins with a much larger cooperative process: the self generation of our Solar System. Pieced together from thousands of examples across the Galaxy, astronomers have constructed a “movie” that begins in a swirling large molecular cloud of gas and...
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