Air into Gold(millions of cells competing to create life)

I don’t remember what book I got the concept out of but, I know it has to do with how so many millions of cells compete with each other just to create life. So many living cells just to make one life which in turn uses up millions of cells just to stay alive. So beautiful yet so horribly destructive and wasteful. The way humans live a cell probably lasts about 6 seconds before it dies and a new one is created to take its place. Just the act of renewing the body is a process that is beautiful. It’s amazing how human beings propagate and evolved into what we are. Where is the next evolutionary step? Is it you? Is it ME?!?!?! Who would put this whole beautiful cycle together. Just to transform Air into Gold… This wasn’t the original way I was going to take this topic but being underway has a way of skewing ways of thinking.