I'm a huge fan of Nick Lane, and I'm not an expert, so I may have misunderstood. I have not read "Power, Sex, Suicide" but have read "The vital question", "tra

I'm a huge fan of Nick Lane, and I'm not an expert, so I may have misunderstood. I have not read "Power, Sex, Suicide" but have read "The vital question", "transformer," and most importantly in this context, "Oxygen." My understanding, which could absolutely be wrong, is that there are pathways to where Oxygen can be generated without life, but for it to be maintained at high levels of concentration over time, that takes life. I would definitely defer to whatever Nick Lane has to say about it.