What is Life?

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Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions, Part One: What is Life?

Scientists can now explain virtually every stage of the evolutionary process.  But there’s a basic question that still mystifies even the best scientists: How did life first begin on Earth?  Or to put in another way, how did non-life somehow turn into life?  And can we say the Earth itself is alive?  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we’ll talk with James Lovelock about his Gaia theory, and explore the question, What is Life?

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August 02, 2024