Sam Wollaston, in the Guardian, pretending not to understand Brian Cox’s Wonders of Life, actually hit on a good paraphrase: “Life, that's it – not a thing, but a series of chemical processes that harness the flow of energy to create islands of order, like a tree, or me.” Actually, Cox was excellent in explaining the emerging thermodynamic, chemical gradient theory of the origin of life, as expounded in detail in Nick Lane’s Life Ascending. Absolutely brilliant that Cox was able to present this on primetime BBC TV.
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