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Category: HIstory of Life

March 27, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos” by Peter Hoffman

March 26, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Revolutions That Made the Earth” by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson

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Book Summary: “Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution” by Nick Lane

February 26, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Principles of Social Evolution” by Andrew Bourke

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