63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries

Update: 2025-02-27

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Tom unpacks the complex definitions of life and challenges common misconceptions about living organisms, from mules and parasites to viruses. Listeners gain insights into the key characteristics that define life while exploring philosophical questions surrounding it.

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73. The Modern Synthesis of Evolution

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72. Sex, Sexual Reproduction, and Sexual Selection

2025-06-2454:29

71. Mechanisms of Evolution II: genetic drift, recombination, mutations

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70. Mechanisms of Evolution I: Natural selection

2025-06-2241:48

69. What is a species?

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68. Cellular respiration

2025-05-1601:40:59

67. Energy, Membranes, Transport, and Metabolism

2025-04-1602:05:34

66. Cells are the Basic Unit of Life

2025-04-1101:41:13

65. The Chemistry of Life

2025-04-0801:39:36

64. The Ingredients of Life

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63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries

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62. Themes in Science: From Emergent Properties to Evolution

2024-10-1501:21:33

61. A Biologists Looks at 50: Reflections from 30 years of doing science

2024-04-0501:02:48

60. The Fermi paradox, aliens, biology, evolution

2024-03-1359:37

59. Why we should colonize the solar system

2024-03-0237:01

58. The Silurian Hypothesis, evolution, civilizations, aliens, and the legacy of humanity.

2023-11-2645:51

57. Life, aliens, opinions, and other things I've been thinking about lately

2023-10-1240:26

56. Do the laws of nature make life likely to occur and evolution progressive?

2023-03-2740:40

55. What makes an animal different from all other life?

2023-03-1041:18

54. Plants have relationships too!

2023-03-0339:35

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63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries

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63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries

Tom Kennedy

63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries