302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

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And it sets the largest possible cell size. What's really happening there is that the ribosome is making more ribosomes. So it actually makes some of its own components. And so you reach, it has its own replication rate. So it's a machine that replicates itself with one rate. And eventually the cell growth rate starts to push up against that ribosome replication rate. And that is an impossibility.