I did not know anything about chemi-osmotic coupling or the proton-ion pump before reading The Vital Question. Now I see metabolism as central to the origin of life and a driving force of evolution. The argument for alkali-geothermal vents as a likely origin of euchariotic redox metabolism is imaginative, evocative, and awe inspiring.
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