The title is the first sentence of the third to last paragraph of Nick Lane's "The Vital Question".
The last sentence of that paragraph is "Genes are almost infinitely permissive: anything that can happen will happen." Lane goes on with two equally more eloquent paragraphs about the importance of energy to life.
But to me, the point of the book is that the Cold Equations of physics and chemistry are not at all permissive towards biology. If it can't happen it won't. Life as been straitjacketed by certain physical fundamentals for its entire existence. I think people who listen too much to biologists and not enough to chemists and physicists forget that.
The last sentence of that paragraph is "Genes are almost infinitely permissive: anything that can happen will happen." Lane goes on with two equally more eloquent paragraphs about the importance of energy to life.
But to me, the point of the book is that the Cold Equations of physics and chemistry are not at all permissive towards biology. If it can't happen it won't. Life as been straitjacketed by certain physical fundamentals for its entire existence. I think people who listen too much to biologists and not enough to chemists and physicists forget that.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1drg0Wb
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