Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

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Nick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life. He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents. Nick’s story may be wrong, but I find it remarkable that with just that starting point, you can explain so much about why life is the…

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• T2Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitablePodcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh10 Oct 2025, 15:29