302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t […]
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Biology
299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
Living organisms seem exquisitely organized and complex, with features clearly adapted to serving certain functions needed to survive and procreate.
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it “goes on doing something… for a much longer
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it. That
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Understanding how life began on Earth involves questions of chemistry, geology, planetary science, physics, and more. But the question of
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Just like with physics, in biology it is perfectly possible to do most respectable work without thinking much about philosophy,
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274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Modern biology is advancing by leaps and bounds, not only in understanding how organisms work, but in learning how to
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266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
Evolution is sometimes described — not precisely, but with some justification — as being about the “survival of the fittest.”
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259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
It wasn’t that long ago that topics like the nature of consciousness, or the foundations of quantum mechanics, or prospects
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