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How Cooperating Microbes Shaped Life on Earth

• deleted 8y ago
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• codeulike 8y ago
  "None of your neurons know who you are, nor do they care." Daniel Dennett
• vwcx 8y ago
  German writer Andreas Weber has a poetic, beautiful and nerdy book on the same concept. Highly recommended as a way to expand beyond the technical concept of microbial cooperation and think about the symbiosis that makes our lives possible and wonderful. https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/matter-and-desire/ https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/matter-and-desire/
• candiodari 8y ago
  The fun thing is that when people mention the "grey goo" disaster. Well that happened. Evolution "didn't progress" for 3 billion years. Then the oxygen catastrophe made sure the grey goo was on the back foot for a few hundred million years (ie. it accidentally almost completely destroyed itself. Whoops) And the branch of life we're part of ... adapted faster to the new circumstances.