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Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect

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The machines of biology are of a mechanism more elemental than those of man’s design. Consider, for example, the intermittent internal combustion (e.g., gasoline-reciprocating piston) engine that performs the work of putting a vehicle in motion. Fuel is injected in a timely manner into a series of chambers; the fuel vapors are ignited in each chamber; a series of explosions of hot expanding gasses occur in properly timed sequence; the hot expanding gasses supply the energy that drives the pistons, that by means of connecting rods rotates the crankshaft, that through a clutch assembly and speed-changing gears rotates the drive shaft, that by means of a differential gear box rotates the wheels, that puts the vehicle in motion.

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(2006). Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect. In: What Sustains Life?. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4562-5_5

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