Credit: Oleg E. Shklyaev et al, Matter (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.06.063 The complexity of life on Earth was derived from simplicity: From the first protocells to the growth of any organism, individual cells aggregate into basic clumps and then form more complex structures. The earliest cells lacked complicated biochemical machinery; ...
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