The Krebs Cycle: Life's Unexpected Secret
2025-05-16
Nick Lane's *Transformer* challenges the prevailing view of life as solely information-driven. Instead, Lane argues that life is fundamentally a chemical phenomenon, centered on the Krebs cycle – a metabolic process converting inorganic molecules into life's building blocks, and vice-versa. This cycle, long misunderstood, connects the earliest photosynthetic bacteria to human consciousness and even death itself, revealing a deep coherence in the story of life on Earth. The book explores the ramifications of this cycle across the tree of life, offering a revolutionary perspective on the origins and fate of life.
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