The First Cell had a Plan

We all started our journey as a single cell. That cell needed to divide many times to form a human body that would be able to leave the mother’s womb, become self-aware and survive the outside world for nearly a century. It’s like a single brick multiplying itself to build the entire city of Tokyo. How is this even possible?

Physicists who popularize science may say that we are, in fact, mostly just “hot air” between the incredibly tiny particles that make up our atoms. From the point of view of physics and chemistry, we are, on the other hand, a cluster of an unimaginably large…