Hypothesis: bacteria live on the edge of phase transitions with a cell cycle regulated by a water-clock.

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A fundamental problem in biology is how cells obtain the reproducible, coherent phenotypes needed for natural selection to act or, put differently, how cells manage to limit their exploration of the vastness of phenotype space. A subset of this problem is how they regulate their cell cycle. Bacteria, like eukaryotic cells, are highly structured and contain scores of hyperstructures or assemblies of molecules and...

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