#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens mentions Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence by Sara Walker and Life Ascending by Nick Lane with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
She has written an amazing new upcoming book titled Life As No One Knows It, The Physics of Life’s Emergence.
Nick Lane has a book called Life Ascending, where he lists the 10 great inventions of evolution, the origin of life being first and DNA, the heredita…
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The book is mentioned as a major new work by Sara Walker that tackles the physics and emergence of life, framing it w…
The speaker invokes Nick Lane's Life Ascending while discussing major evolutionary innovations to frame the origin of…
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“Mentioned as Sara Walker's upcoming book, titled Life As No One Knows It, The Physics of Life’s Emergence, coming out August 6th and discussed throughout the excerpt.”
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