Ray Peat Audio Archive

polsci-000102-origin-of-life — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-000102-origin-of-life. The excerpt begins at 28:08 and runs for 1 minute 1 second.

And so you have the reverse situation in which genes come last after you've already created nice, neat little cells that can metabolize, and they can even reproduce themselves without the genes in them. He basically originated life. Yeah, yeah. And you put the proteinoid microspheres, he called them, in a solution with amino acids, and the proteins keep going in the growth process because they've concentrated a relatively water-free environment in which they do grow. And so they assimilate nutrients from the water environment, grow, and then when they reach a size at which they are no longer stable, they bud or divide and produce new cells, as long as there's food available, I guess.