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polsci-150304-evolution — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-150304-evolution. The excerpt begins at 36:24 and runs for 2 minutes 21 seconds.

the surface of the hot rocks had a nonrandom arrangement as if the amino acids were interacting in such a way that they chose their position according to stability in some sense, rather than just randomly falling together. In a certain arrangement, the heat with a very small amount of water letting them dry out and then adding a small amount of water to this hot spontaneously formed protein, they spontaneously formed little bacteria-like spheres of very uniform in size. The bulk of the protein would take on this bacteria-like shape spontaneously. When new amino acids were added, these shapes could divide like cells or bud off parts that would then grow up to the bacteria-sized particle about a micron in diameter, I think it was, so they could eat and reproduce. To a mixture of these amino acid proteins and spheres, he found that adding the bases of the nucleic acids, these two would polymerize inside the little bacteria-like particles and would form nucleic acid chain polymers, again, which were nonrandomly arranged apparently by the nature of the bases themselves and their context, the nature of the nonrandom protein structures around them.