Hyperlipid

The archaea developed rather differently from the Ech driven bacteria. I want to look at them from the energetic point of view so it seems r...

I'm interested in paleobiology at the moment, readers might have noticed. Mostly how we might have gotten to where we are now without a ...

I think I’ve said before, I’m a calories-in, calories-out sort of person. Nothing as simple as losing a kilo of stored fat for every 9000kca...

When I draw my doodles of early energetics my standard protocol is to have low pH, high H+, oceanic region at the top. The ocean is above......

Let's begin with electron micrographs of the structure of the precipitates in Nick Lane's hydrothermal vent simulating bench top rea...

This is for Raphi. It's a slightly rough version of the post I lost yesterday. I've been through Nick Lane's timeline for the ev...

I have just lost a very complex post. Gone. :-( Peter

Raphi asked a very interesting question in the comments section of the last post: "Could you please expand on why you *think* Nick La...

I will now try and shut up about the origins of life. But first I have to summarise the idea which threw itself at me as I tidied up the las...

In the beginning there was an acidic ocean, alkaline hydrothermal fluid and a precipitated Fe/Ni sulphide catalytic interface. You can do ...