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 .p087 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_bilayer | phospholipid membrane molecules ]] hydrophobic inner carbon chains, hydrophilic outer head, bilayer array into membranes
 .p088 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Deamer | David Deamer ]] at UC Santa Cruz extracted lipids from meteorites, which spontaneously formed bilayer vesicles
 .p089 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyruvic_aci | Pyruvic acid ]] can also make membranes
 .p091 [[ https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9427.pdf | U. Edinburgh scientists ]] tested thousands of alternate molecular pathways, routes used by life produce more compounds than all possible alternatives
 .p092 pathways might flexibly mutate to other pathways, but nature evolved towards the optimum
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 .p097 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-positive_bacteria | Gram-positive bacteria ]] peptidoglycan cell wall with inner membrane but no outer membrane
 .p097 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-negative_bacteria | Gram-negative bacteria ]] peptidoglycan cell wall sandwiched between an inner and outer membrane
 .p098 Simpler Gram-positive bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics
 .p103 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold | Slime mold ]] cells gather into tentacles and move towards nutrients

The Equations Of Life

How Physics Shapes Evolution


  • p001 Ch01 Life's Silent Commander



  • p019 Ch02 Organizing the Multitudes


  • p024 active matter physics, Tamás Vicsek

  • p026 formula for probability of ant choosing a pheromone trail marked by a prior ant or ants, not usable without examples and numbers
  • p027 formulas obscured when many ants swarm towards multiple goals
  • p028 self-organizing behavior, not supervised but seeming so
  • p034 birds save energy by flying in formation and coordinating wing beats, minimizing downwash effects
  • p035 18yo Cockell in the Canadian north, banding birds caught in nets, then released
    • different ducks behaved differently, unique individual "personalities"
  • p035 Physics trumps individuality
  • p036 cellular cytoskeleton proteins self-organize
  • p037 kinesin (anterograde) and myosin (retrograde) motor molecules crawl along polar tubulin filaments


  • p039 Ch03 The Physics of the Ladybug



  • p059 Ch04 All Creatures Great and Small



  • p083 Ch05 Bundles of Life



  • p105 Ch06 The Edge of Life


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  • p125 Ch07 The Code of Life


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  • p145 Ch08 Of Sandwiches and Sulfur


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  • p167 Ch09 Water, the Liquid of Life


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  • p195 Ch10 The Atoms Of Life


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  • p217 Ch11 Universal Biology


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  • p239 Ch12 The Laws of Life: Evolution and Physics Unified


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  • p259 Acknowledgements



  • p263 Notes



  • p325 Index



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