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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 42:17 and runs for 1 minute 30 seconds.

So is that theory of life developing, gaining more acceptance? Because I would think it's very difficult to go on with any other kind of theory in that case, looking at that evidence. I mentioned it to my professors in my qualifying exam. None of them had heard about it, even though it was in Leninger's biochemistry textbook. They hadn't heard about it. I looked at the edition that came out in Leninger's name after he died and Fox's work had been removed. So I think there was a move away from it after Fox died. But I don't think anything has come near to replacing it. You wrote in Generative Energy under the chapter called Another View of Evolution, you wrote, "The thought that lifeforms might just sort of gush up out of the earth in volcanic regions makes it all seem too easy. Where might it lead if people started believing that life could originate without a struggle for existence?"