The Origins and Nature of Life | Interview with Eric Smith | Biomusings
Channel: Biomusings
Date: 2020-01-25

Eric Smith is a Professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His background is in Physics, but he specializes in the Origins of Life, biogeochemistry, and non-equilibrium dynamics of living systems. 
In this conversation, we focus on the nature of life and the physical processes sustaining it. We also talk about Schrödinger's "What is life?", the history and development of biology as a quantitative science, and the nature of reductionism in science. 
Eric recently published "The Origins and Nature of Life on Earth" (2016), co-authored with Harold Morowitz (1927-2016), where they cover extensively this topic: https://go.biomusings.org/2FcSwG

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