Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-12-29
Books mentioned on #350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Wonderful Life the Burgess
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould is a celebrated paleontology book that examines the Burgess Shale fossil deposit and contemplates the contingency of evolution and the Cambrian explosion of life.
Discussed“for instance I mean there I think it's in the 80s maybe earlier than that the Stephen J Gold's book Wonderful Life which changed I think a lot of scientists life including mine he contemplates on this notion of the tape of Life”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I like this quote by Douglas Adams: humans don't like their ancestors; they rarely invite them over for dinner.”